KPI Guidance Tool
General Merchandise| Product Category | Assessment Name | KPI Title | Calculation & Scope | Certifications, Standards & Tools | Background Information | Definitions |
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| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Greenhouse gas emissions - Petrochemicals | This question addresses petrochemicals, including those used in plastic tape films and in synthetic resins, but excluding those used in sales packaging. Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on ingredient suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on all ingredient suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Greenhouse gas emissions - Pulp products | This question addresses pulp-based materials, including those used to make jumbos and some tape films, but not those used for sales packaging. Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the mass purchased from suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Product design - End of life | N/A | EN 1720: This standard from the European Committee for Standarization provides a test method to measure the dispersibility of adhesives. http://standards.cen.eu/dyn/www/f?p=204:110:0::::FSP_PROJECT,FSP_ORG_ID:8919,6174&cs=1542C5883BE88C7C8DF41ECB79B9D6045 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. | |
| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Product design - Sustainability | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, recycled content, and compostability. | ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html | Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Adhesive Tapes | Tape | Worker health and safety - Petrochemical supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Consumer education - Antifreeze use and disposal | N/A | Bittering agents: Chemical flavorings that can be added to antifreeze formulations to make them less palatable to consumption. | ||
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Greenhouse gas emissions - Glycol supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the mass purchased from ingredient suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all ingredient suppliers, then multiply by 100. Treat ethylene and propylene glycol supplies collectively and use their combined masses for the calculation. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Priority chemicals - Management | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment. For C, informed substitution implies that factors such as cost and performance, technical feasibility, life cycle impacts, economic and social accountability, and potential to result in lasting change have been taken into consideration to ensure that substitutes and the final product are safer based on their health and environmental profiles. For D, goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Public disclosure of goals and progress must have occurred within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Examples of tools and protocols for screening chemicals and assessing alternatives include green chemistry, alternatives analysis, restricted substances lists, and other tools that are listed in the Background Information. | GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: GreenScreen is a "Chemical Hazard Assessment" method that can be used to identify chemicals of high concern and determine safer alternatives. The tool was developed and is administered by Clean Production Action. A second tool, the GreenScreen List Translator, is a publicly available abbreviated version that screens and classifies chemicals based solely on their presence on authoritative hazard lists. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/ GreenSuite: GreenSuite is an environmental sustainability tool that can be customized to specific users' needs. Environmental issues throughout the supply chain are covered by this web based solution. http://greensuite360.com/index.html Greenlist Process: According to their website, "In 2001, SC Johnson developed the Greenlist Process to classify ingredients in order to minimize the human and environmental impacts of their products." The process is now available for license to other companies and organizations. https://www.scjohnson.com/en/our-purpose/sustainability-report/explaining-the-sc-johnson-greenlist-program-an-excerpt-from-our-2017-sustainability-report NSF/GCI/ANSI 355-2011 - Greener Chemicals and Processes Information: According to this website, "The purpose of the Information Standard is to provide the chemical enterprise with a voluntary and standardized way to define and report environmental and human health hazards associated with a chemical product and its gate-to-gate manufacturing process impacts." http://www.worldcat.org/title/nsfgciansi-355-2011-greener-chemicals-and-processes-information/oclc/772118815 Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Management KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Management KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528286 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Assessment Tools and Models: According to their website, "The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed several exposure assessment methods, databases, and predictive models to help in evaluating what happens to chemicals when they are used and released to the environment and how workers, the general public, consumers and the aquatic ecosystems may be exposed to chemicals." https://www.epa.gov/ceam/tools-data-exposure-assessment United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Sustainable Futures: According to their website, "The goal of the Sustainable Futures Initiative (SF) is to make new chemicals safer, available faster, and at lower cost. It works by giving chemical developers the same risk-screening models that EPA uses to evaluate new chemicals before they enter the market." https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-futures | BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol: The BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol is a "decision framework for substituting chemicals of concern to human health or the environment with safer alternatives." https://www.bizngo.org/alternatives-assessment/chemical-alternatives-assessment-protocol Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (LSCP): A Compendium of Methods and Tools for Chemical Hazard Assessment: This report was commissioned by The Sustainability Consortium in a joint effort with The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. This compendium is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to provide an overview of the methods and tools being used by governments, the for-profit private sector, and nonprofit organizations to more effectively screen and prioritize chemical hazards and identify safer alternatives. http://www.sustainableproduction.org/publ.alternatives.php The Guide to Safer Chemicals: The Guide to Safer Chemicals provides guidance on how to design and implement a chemicals management program based on the Principles for Safer Chemicals. The Principles and Guide were developed by BizNGO, a collaboration of business and NGO leaders to create and adopt "safer chemicals and sustainable materials." https://www.bizngo.org/safer-chemicals/guide-to-safer-chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Existing Chemicals Program: According to their website, "EPA's existing chemical programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and characterization, and risk management for chemical substances in commercial use." The current chemicals management program is undergoing review and update, including how the agency identifies and prioritizes priority chemicals for review and assessment under TSCA. https://www.epa.gov/compliance/toxic-substances-control-act-tsca-compliance-monitoring#chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Product stewardship programs - Antifreeze | N/A | British Columbia Used Oil Management Association: This website outlines the product stewardship program for motor oil that has been established in British Columbia. http://www.usedoilrecycling.com/en/bc/aboutus | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. | |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Recycled content - Glycol | Calculate the percentage on a either a percent volume-by-volume or a percent mass-by-mass basis. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Antifreeze | Antifreeze | Worker health and safety - Petrochemical supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your petrochemical supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your petrochemical supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Benzene reduction - Gasoline | Calculate a volume-weighted percent by first multiplying the volume of each grade of gasoline supplied by its average percent by volume of benzene, then by summing these values and dividing their total by the total volume of gasoline supplied (across all grades). ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | ASTM D6277: This standard protocol from ASTM International provides a test method for determining the concentration of benzene in spark-ignition engine fuels. http://www.astm.org/Standards/D6277.htm | ||
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Fugitive emissions control - Fuel storage facilities | ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | Automatic overfill protection: Devices used on liquid storage tanks to prevent spills such as alarms, automatic shutoff devices, and ball float valves. | ||
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Fugitive emissions control - Refueling stations | Exclude from the calculation any fuel pumps that have been specifically exempted from implementation of stage II vapor recovery systems as part of a state implementation plan, for example. ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | Vapor Recovery Certification: This website maintained by the California Air Resources Board lists approved Stage II vapor recovery systems in the state of California. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/vapor-recovery-phase-ii-pre-evr-executive-orders | Stage-II vapor recovery systems: Technologies that recapture fuel vapors generated during vehicle refueling. | |
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Greenhouse gas emissions - Refined products supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on ingredient suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on all ingredient suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Noise abatement – Petroleum refineries | Calculate B1 as the spend on refined products produced by conforming suppliers divided by the total spend on refined products, then multiply by 100. Treat masses obtained from suppliers whose performance is unknown as non-conforming. Include in your calculation refined products sourced from both internal and external suppliers. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment can include an on-site audit by a second or third party. | European Commission's BAT Reference Document for Mineral Oil and Gas Refineries: This guidance document describes best practices for pollution control at mineral oil and gas refineries, as defined in 2003. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/best-available-techniques-bat-reference-document-refining-mineral-oil-and-gas-industrial International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petroleum refineries. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/publications/publications_policy_ehs-petroleumrefining | Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Sulfur reduction - Diesel | Calculate a volume-weighted average concentration by first multiplying the volume of each grade of diesel supplied by its average parts-per-million concentration of sulfur, then by summing these values and dividing their total by the total volume of diesel supplied (across all grades). ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | ASTM D7039: This is one example of a standard protocol by ASTM International for measuring the sulfur content of fuels, including gasoline and diesel. http://www.astm.org/Standards/D7039.htm | ||
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Sulfur reduction - Gasoline | Calculate a volume-weighted average concentration by first multiplying the volume of each grade of gasoline supplied by its average parts-per-million concentration of sulfur, then by summing these values and dividing their total by the total volume of gasoline supplied (across all grades). ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | ASTM D7039: This is one example of a standard protocol by ASTM International for measuring the sulfur content of fuels, including gasoline and diesel. http://www.astm.org/Standards/D7039.htm | ||
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Tank management - Underground fuel storage tanks | N/A | Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 280): This regulation in the United States federal code outlines standards for underground storage tank owners and operators, including technical standards and standards for corrective actions. https://www.epa.gov/ust/revising-underground-storage-tank-regulation-revisions-existing-requirements-and-new | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. | |
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Wastewater management - Petroleum refineries | This question only applies to direct discharges of treated or untreated effluent to surface waters. Refined ingredients may include combustible hydrocarbons and any refined additives, such as those used as anti-knock agents and detergents. Calculate C1 as the mass of refined ingredients provided by compliant facilities divided by the total mass provided by all facilities, then multiply by 100. Include refined ingredients produced by external and internal suppliers. Treat facilities whose performance is unknown as non-compliant. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Compliance must be demonstrated through an on-site audit by a second or third party in accordance with an internationally recognized standard or by reporting publicly to an appropriate governmental authority. Compliance requires that undiluted effluent meets pollutant guideline values established in the International Finance Corporation's (IFC’s) Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining (2007, Table 2). Available data must demonstrate satisfaction of all criteria presented in the IFC guidelines, and at least 75% of the IFC criteria must be quantified by available data. Maximum concentrations of pollutants, as measured at the point of discharge, must not exceed the IFC guidelines on any single day. Monitoring programs should conform to an internationally recognized standard for the collection and analysis of samples. | International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petroleum refineries. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/publications/publications_policy_ehs-petroleumrefining | International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petroleum refineries. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/publications/publications_policy_ehs-petroleumrefining | Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
| Automotive Fuels | Fuels | Worker health and safety - Refined products supply | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total spend on your refined materials supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Design for the environment | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include informed substitution of ingredients with less toxic alternatives and modifying current manufacturing processes to incorporate pollution prevention (P2) strategies. Examples of P2 practices include: modifying a production process to produce less waste; using non-toxic or less toxic chemicals as cleaners, degreasers and other maintenance chemicals; implementing water and energy conservation practices. | BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol: The BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol is a "decision framework for substituting chemicals of concern to human health or the environment with safer alternatives." https://www.bizngo.org/alternatives-assessment/chemical-alternatives-assessment-protocol EU Ecolabel: This voluntary labelling scheme certifies products as having reduced environmental impact across their life cycle stages. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/ OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals: The OECD has compiled this list of internationally accepted methods for testing chemical safety, both for humans and the environment. https://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/testing/oecdguidelinesforthetestingofchemicals.htm The Guide to Safer Chemicals: The Guide to Safer Chemicals provides guidance on how to design and implement a chemicals management program based on the Principles for Safer Chemicals. The Principles and Guide were developed by BizNGO, a collaboration of business and NGO leaders to create and adopt "safer chemicals and sustainable materials." https://www.bizngo.org/safer-chemicals/guide-to-safer-chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Pollution Prevention (P2) Resoruces: Pollution prevention (P2) is any practice that reduces, eliminates, or prevents pollution at its source, also known as "source reduction." The US EPA provides information and resources to businesses, communities, and consumers on best practices and implementation strategies to reduce pollution at its source. https://www.epa.gov/p2 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. | |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Greenhouse gas emissions - Refined products supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on ingredient suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on all ingredient suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Lubricant recycling – Lubricant manufacturing | Calculate B1 on a either a percent volume-by-volume or a percent mass-by-mass basis. ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | |||
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Noise abatement – Petroleum refineries | Calculate B1 as the spend on refined products produced by conforming suppliers divided by the total spend on refined products, then multiply by 100. Treat masses obtained from suppliers whose performance is unknown as non-conforming. Include in your calculation refined products sourced from both internal and external suppliers. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment can include an on-site audit by a second or third party. | European Commission's BAT Reference Document for Mineral Oil and Gas Refineries: This guidance document describes best practices for pollution control at mineral oil and gas refineries, as defined in 2003. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/best-available-techniques-bat-reference-document-refining-mineral-oil-and-gas-industrial International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petroleum refineries. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/publications/publications_policy_ehs-petroleumrefining | Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Product stewardship programs - Lubricants | N/A | British Columbia Used Oil Management Association: This website outlines the product stewardship program for motor oil that has been established in British Columbia. http://www.usedoilrecycling.com/en/bc/aboutus | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. | |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Storage tank management | ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | European Commission's BAT Reference Document for Mineral Oil and Gas Refineries: This guidance document describes best practices for pollution control at mineral oil and gas refineries, as defined in 2003. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/best-available-techniques-bat-reference-document-refining-mineral-oil-and-gas-industrial International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Crude Oil and Petroleum Product Terminals: This IFC guidance document outlines best available technologies for pollution control and worker safety at petroleum terminal storage facilities. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/policies-standards/ehs-guidelines | Automatic overfill protection: Devices used on liquid storage tanks to prevent spills such as alarms, automatic shutoff devices, and ball float valves. | |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Wastewater management - Petroleum refineries | This question only applies to direct discharges of treated or untreated effluent to surface waters. Refined ingredients may include refined base oils and any refined additives, such as those used as viscosity modifiers and dispersants. Calculate C1 as the total spend on refined ingredients provided by compliant facilities divided by the total spend on all facilities, then multiply by 100. Include refined ingredients produced by external and internal suppliers. Treat facilities whose performance is unknown as non-compliant. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Compliance must be demonstrated through an on-site audit by a second or third party in accordance with an internationally recognized standard or by reporting publicly to an appropriate governmental authority. Compliance requires that undiluted effluent meets pollutant guideline values established in the International Finance Corporation's (IFC’s) Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining (2016, Table 2). Available data must demonstrate satisfaction of all criteria presented in the IFC guidelines, and at least 75% of the IFC criteria must be quantified by available data. Maximum concentrations of pollutants, as measured at the point of discharge, must not exceed the IFC guidelines on any single day. Monitoring programs should conform to an internationally recognized standard for the collection and analysis of samples. | International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petroleum refineries. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/publications/publications_policy_ehs-petroleumrefining | International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petroleum refineries. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/publications/publications_policy_ehs-petroleumrefining | Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
| Automotive Oils | Automotive Lubricants | Worker health and safety - Refined products supply | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total spend on your refined materials supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the spend on your refined products supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total spend on your refined products supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Consumer education | N/A | Be Tire Smart: Consumer information regarding proper tire maintenance from the Tire and Rubber Association of Canada. http://www.betiresmart.ca/ TireWise: TireWise is a collaboration between government and industry in the U.S. that is designed to promote consumer education about tire safety and efficiency. https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/tires | Rolling resistance: The force opposing the motion of an object as it rolls across a surface. | |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Corporate policy - Natural rubber | "Widely recognized principles" are those principles that underpin the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber. | Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber: The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber launched in March 2019. The purpose is to support the members of the WBCSD Tire Industry Project in improving the sustainability performance of their natural rubber supply. https://sustainablenaturalrubber.org/ | SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Tire Industry Project: The Tire Industry Project exists under the aegis of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to identify and address environmental and health impacts potentially associated with the production, use, and disposal of automotive tires. https://www.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Tire-Industry-Project | |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Deforestation and land conversion - Natural rubber sourcing | Calculate D1 as the mass of your natural rubber supply that originated from farms determined to be low-risk of conversion for farm or non-forest use, can show zero deforestation, or have committed to zero conversion of HCV or HCS forest, divided by the total mass of your natural rubber supply, then multiply by 100. For a farm to qualify for zero deforestation or commitments to HCV or HCS certification, a base year from which changes to those values can be calculated must be set that is in line with when commitments were made. A growing operation can be considered low risk for conversion to non-forest use when one of the following is true: The farm is located in a jurisdiction that is assessed to be low risk by a risk classification analysis; the farm is located in a jurisdiction that is assessed to be high risk by a risk classification analysis but corrective actions are taken where needed; or, the site risk was determined to be low by an on-site audit. Zero deforestation means that since January 1, 2010, no existing forest was converted to non-forest use for the production of natural rubber. Offsets or zero-net deforestation are not included in this definition. Land on which deforestation has occurred since 2010 may be considered to have “zero deforestation” if restored to its previous state as determined by tree cover, species composition, stored carbon, and all other relevant factors. The absence of deforestation must be confirmed using monitoring of the specific land tracts where the feed originated, such as remote sensing, audits, or other direct observations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber: The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber launched in March 2019. The purpose is to support the members of the WBCSD Tire Industry Project in improving the sustainability performance of their natural rubber supply. https://sustainablenaturalrubber.org/ Greenpeace High Carbon Stock Approach: This website provides information about how to identify High Carbon Stock forests. https://www.greenpeace.org/archive-international/en/campaigns/forests/solutions/HCS-Approach/ High Carbon Stock Approach: This website provides a standardized methodology for identifying natural, high carbon stock forest areas. http://highcarbonstock.org High Conservation Value Resource Network: This resource provides common guidance for how to identify, manage, and monitor High Conservation Value forest areas. https://hcvnetwork.org/ WWF High Conservation Value Forests: This website provides information describing the underlying concept of High Conservation Value forests. http://wwf.panda.org/?93560/High-Conservation-Value-Forests-The-concept-in-theory-and-practice | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Deforestation: The direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land. High Carbon Stock (HCS) forest: Forest areas with a significant amount of carbon stored within the vegetation and soil. Burning and clearing HCS forests releases stored carbon as greenhouse gas emissions. Different initiatives have set thresholds for identifying High Carbon Stock forests. High Conservation Value (HCV) forest: Forested areas that support natural concentrations and distribution of species including significant species and ecosystems (e.g., endemic or endangered species, refuges), provide the basic services of nature in critical conditions (e.g., watershed protection, erosion control), and are fundamental to meeting the basic needs and traditional cultural identity of local communities. Land conversion: The human-induced change of the prevailing physical and ecological conditions of an area of land to facilitate a new use or function. Examples include conversion of forests for pasture; conversion of native grasslands or other ecosystems for crop production, grazing, or other uses; conversion of farmland for urban development; and draining marshes or wetlands to create dry land. |
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| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Fugitive emissions control - Tire manufacturing | Implementing fugitive gas emissions monitoring and reduction programs or plans for company-owed or contract facilities as part of an ISO 14001-compliant environmental management system would count toward this KPI. | ISO 14001: This standard from the International Organization for Standardization governs the two-stage assessment of a company's environmental management systems. https://www.iso.org/standard/60857.html | European Commission's Reference Document on the General Principles of Monitoring: This guidance document describes best practices for the monitoring of industrial emissions at the source as prescribed by the EU's Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control program. https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/2014/working/wd_2014_en.pdf Fugitive Guidance - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: Prepared to help companies in Texas comply with state regulations regarding fugitive emissions, this guide also provides detailed information about how to assess and measure fugitive emissions and equipment and processes that can be used to decrease them. https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/permitting/air/Guidance/NewSourceReview/fugitive-guidance.pdf ISO 14001: This standard from the International Organization for Standardization governs the two-stage assessment of a company's environmental management systems. https://www.iso.org/standard/60857.html OECD Best Available Techniques (BAT) to Prevent and Control Industrial Pollution: This site describes the work the OECD has performed to define and identify best available techniques for pollution prevention and how best governments can support industry in implementing these techniques. https://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/risk-management/best-available-techniques.htm | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Fugitive emissions: Non-stack emissions released from a facility or operation and can include such constituents as volatile organic compounds and dust. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from the suppliers of materials used in your final product that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all material suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Natural rubber sourcing | Calculate B1, B2, and B3 as the mass of your natural rubber supply for which you have identified the country, region, or site of origin, divided by the total mass of your natural rubber supply, then multiply by 100. The percentages reported for B1, B2, and B3 must be mutually exclusive and their sum must equal 100%. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. A country is defined as a nation-state recognized by the United Nations. A region is defined as a sub-country area such as an agricultural zone or region, eco-region, or geo-political boundary (e.g., state, county, department). Due to the variance in how "region" may be defined, respondents are encouraged to use a consistent interpretation from year to year when reporting data for this question. A site is an area of land and its buildings that may be comprised of one or more locations that are managed together for the production of natural rubber products. Procurement data, trade networks, or national or subnational product production data may help to identify the origin of your product supply. | Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber: The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber launched in March 2019. The purpose is to support the members of the WBCSD Tire Industry Project in improving the sustainability performance of their natural rubber supply. https://sustainablenaturalrubber.org/ | Tire Industry Project: The Tire Industry Project exists under the aegis of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to identify and address environmental and health impacts potentially associated with the production, use, and disposal of automotive tires. https://www.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Tire-Industry-Project | |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Product design | Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. Activities such as performing life cycle analyses to identify potential improvement opportunities, informed substitutions of materials that may be considered toxic to humans or the environment, reducing the amount of fossil fuel-sourced materials, or other design features aimed at reducing tire production, use, or disposal. | ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html Tire Industry Project: The Tire Industry Project exists under the aegis of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to identify and address environmental and health impacts potentially associated with the production, use, and disposal of automotive tires. https://www.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Tire-Industry-Project UL 10006: Product category rules (PCR) for Tires: Product Category Rules (PCR) for preparing an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for the Product Category: Tires was developed by the Tire Industry Project, an initiative of WBCSD. The PCR enables tire manufacturers to assess the environmetnal impact of their products and increase transparency in their supply chains. https://www.environdec.com/PCR/Detail/?Pcr=12057 UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | Alternative materials: Materials that are substitutes for conventional materials, however are not commonly used. These materials can be used to reduce environmental and social impacts. | |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Product design - Rolling Resistance | Calculate B1 as the number of tires shipped that were designed to increase fuel efficiency or decrease vehicle emissions divided by the total number of tires shipped, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | ISO 8124-1 Methods of measuring rolling resistance: This standard from the International Organization for Standardization prescribes methods for measuring the rolling resistance of tires for cars, trucks, and buses. https://www.iso.org/standard/67531.html | Tire Industry Project: The Tire Industry Project exists under the aegis of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to identify and address environmental and health impacts potentially associated with the production, use, and disposal of automotive tires. https://www.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Tire-Industry-Project | Rolling resistance: The force opposing the motion of an object as it rolls across a surface. |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Product stewardship programs - Tires | Calculate C1 as the number of product units returned to you for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Examples of stewardship programs include extender producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | Rethink Tires: Rethink Tires is a website produced by the extended producer responsibility program for tires in the Canadian province of Ontario. It provides consumer education information about tire recycling and connects consumers to recyclers. http://rethinktires.ca/#sthash.YG8NCfX9.dpbs | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Retreading programs - Tires | Perform these calculations based on units retreaded in company-owned or formal partner facilities employing US EPA SmartWays Verified Technology divided by total number of tires retreaded. For tires retreaded outside the United States, programs that meet or exceed the criteria for a Verified Technology count toward this KPI. Perform this calculation for a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | US Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Verified Technology: As part of the SmartWay program, the US EPA verifies organizations that provide low rolling resistance (LRR) new and retread tire technoloigeas that save fuel or reduce emissions. This service is currently available for commercial trucks and buses, but may be expanded to include passenger vehicles in the future. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | TCS Business Management Software: A software management program coupled to a barcode tracking system that is designed to facilitate tire retreading operations. These software solutions are for the retailer, wholesaler, and retreader. https://tcstire.com/ Tire Retread and Repair Information Bureau: This industry-run website provides information about tire retreading and repair programs. https://www.retread.org/ | Retreading service: A process by which used automotive tires, typically truck tires, are returned to a service provider who refurbishes the tire for extended use. |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Smallholder farmers | Calculate C1 as the mass of your natural rubber supply that came from traders or cooperatives that support programs to increase smallholder farmer opportunities, divided by the total mass of your natural rubber supply that came from smallholder farmers, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. A program to increase smallholder farmer opportunities includes a documented strategy to identify, engage with, and provide support to smallholder farmers in the supply chain. This program can be developed internally or through external partnerships. | Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber: The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber launched in March 2019. The purpose is to support the members of the WBCSD Tire Industry Project in improving the sustainability performance of their natural rubber supply. https://sustainablenaturalrubber.org/ | Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ Tire Industry Project: The Tire Industry Project exists under the aegis of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to identify and address environmental and health impacts potentially associated with the production, use, and disposal of automotive tires. https://www.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Tire-Industry-Project United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | |
| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Sustainable material sourcing - Tire components | Calculate C1 as the mass of recycled material content divided by the total mass of materials used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply the result by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable material content divided by the total mass of materials used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply the result by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. For tires, examples of renewable materials are guayule and Russian dandelions. Recycled material examples are recycled rubber materials or carbon black generated from used tires (post-consumer recycled content). Materials recovered from waste streams during manufacturing that are re-introduced to the manufacturing process count as well (pre-consumer recycled content). | Rethink Tires: Rethink Tires is a website produced by the extended producer responsibility program for tires in the Canadian province of Ontario. It provides consumer education information about tire recycling and connects consumers to recyclers. http://rethinktires.ca/#sthash.YG8NCfX9.dpbs Tire Industry Project: The Tire Industry Project exists under the aegis of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to identify and address environmental and health impacts potentially associated with the production, use, and disposal of automotive tires. https://www.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Tire-Industry-Project | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) |
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| Automotive Tires | Automotive Tires | Worker health and safety - Synthetic rubber supply | An assessment can include on-site audits conducted by second or third parties or an on-site systematic risk assessment against a standard to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors, and must have been conducted at least once every two years using a standard based on internationally recognized principles. The assessments, audits, and standard must be verifiable and must address worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements, and must align with applicable International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). Facilities audited under ISO 45001 or OHSAS 18001 programs that include worker injury and exposure, or participation in the OSHA Voluntary Protection Program would meet the requirements for this KPI. Calculate C1 as the mass of synthetic rubber used in your final product that came from facilities that are low risk with or without corrective actions divided by the total mass of synthetic rubber used in your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | OSHA Volunatry Protection Program: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) recognizes private industry workers and employees that implement best-in-class health and safety programs. https://www.osha.gov/vpp/ | ISO 45001 - Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems: ISO 45001 helps organizations reduce their occupational health and safety burden by providing a framework to improve employee safety, reduce workplace risks, and create better, safer working conditions. The standard can be used in industries of any size, anywhere in the world. https://www.iso.org/standard/63787.html OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Zone: OHSAS 18001 is an internationally applied British standard that addresses occupational health and safety. OHSAS 18001 applies to all types and sizes of organizations and accommodates diverse geographical, cultural, and social conditions. OHSAS aligns with ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 management systems. http://www.ohsas-18001-occupational-health-and-safety.com/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Bicycles | Bicycles | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal frames | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the total spend on metal frame suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on all metal frame suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Bicycles | Bicycles | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Bicycles | Bicycles | Recycled content - Metal | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled metal divided by the total mass of metal used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Bicycles | Bicycles | Responsible supply chains - Metals | ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ | Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. |
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| Bicycles | Bicycles | Worker health and safety - Metal supply | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your metals supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your metals supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your metals supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your metals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your metals supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your metals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your metals supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your metals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your metals supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your metals supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Bicycles | Bicycles | Worker health and safety - Synthetic rubber supply | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your synthetic rubber supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your synthetic rubber supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your synthetic rubber supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your synthetic rubber supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your synthetic rubber supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your synthetic rubber supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your synthetic rubber supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your synthetic rubber supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your synthetic rubber supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your synthetic rubber supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Disc recycling | N/A | Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final products produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) - Printing | Examples of alternatives to traditional solvents and ink chemistries are isopropyl alcohol (IPA) reducers, vegetable- and citrus-based blanket, roller, and general washes, vegetable oil-based offset inks, and water-based flexo and gravure inks. | Volatile organic compounds: Volatile organic compounds are defined as those which participate in atmospheric photochemical reactions. Specific exclusions, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates, ammonium carbonate, and others, are provided by federal and state regulations United States 40 CFR 51.100, United States 40 CFR 59.203, and Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, Division 3, Chapter 1, Subchapter 8.5, Article 2, Consumer Products, Sections 94507-94517. | ||
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm Phosgene - Chemical Weapons Convention: Phosgene is listed as an Annex Three chemical in the Chemical Weapons Convention, implemented by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), due to its high human toxicity. However, annual reporting of aggregate production volumes required under the convention creates a highly regulated space for this chemical internationally, bringing focus on its production and use. https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| CDs and DVDs | CDs and DVDs | Worker health and safety - Polycarbonate supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your polycarbonate supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your polycarbonate supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your polycarbonate supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your polycarbonate supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your polycarbonate supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your polycarbonate supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your polycarbonate supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your polycarbonate supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your polycarbonate supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your polycarbonate supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Greenhouse gas emissions - Mineral supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from mineral suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all mineral suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™: Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™ provides a standard of performance for manufacturers regarding product sustainability and material safety. Individual product assessments are performed by independent and trained third parties and certifications are made by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Ceramic Products | Tile | Recycled content - Ceramics | Recycled ceramic materials can include both pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled material, but should exclude materials recycled from ceramics manufacturing facilities. Calculate B1 as the mass of recycled ceramic used divided by the total mass of ceramic used across all product units manufactured, then multiply by 100. ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) | |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Water use intensity - Manufacturing | You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's water use intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's water use intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. The data required for the CDP Water Security Questionnaire can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 303-3 Water withdrawal" in GRI 303: Water and Effluents can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Water Information Request: The CDP Water Information Request provides questions that assess a company's water use, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. CDP can be contacted to respond to the Water Information Request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Water Use Intensity - Manufacturing/Processing KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Water Use Intensity - Manufacturing/Processing KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-water-use-intensity-manufacturing-processing-kpis/ | Water use: Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. | |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Ceramic Products | Tile | Worker health and safety - Mineral supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Consumer education - Product use | N/A | ENERGY STAR Certified Light Bulbs: ENERGY STAR Certified Light Bulbs page provides information to consumers on the benefits of purchasing certified light bulbs and a buying guide to help in making purchasing decisions. https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans/light_bulbs Energy Independence and Security Act messaging guidelines: Messaging guidelines published by the Bonneville Power Administration regarding proper light bulb packaging labels to meet the requirements of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. https://www.bpa.gov/ee/utility/marketing/marketingmaterials/eisaguidelines.pdf Energy efficiency - Residential Lighting: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) provides useful information regarding light bulb choice for consumers, retailers and manufacturers. https://www.bpa.gov/EE/Sectors/Residential/Pages/default.aspx | Multi-stakeholder initiatives: Adapted from World Wildlife Fund multi-stakeholder initiative definition: Multi-stakeholder initiatives can be internal or external and are defined as those that utilize collaboration and consensus-based techniques to create a set of principles, criteria, and indicators for more responsible production, sourcing, and manufacturing practices within or across a given sector or product. This may result in a standard that is used to verify, accredit, or certify a product. MSIs do not always result in certification schemes, but they may develop measurement tools or share best management practices (BMP). | |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Electricity consumption - Compact fluorescent use | Calculate on the basis of compact fluorescent lamps manufactured alone. Calculate B1 as the total number of product units sold that had ENERGY STAR® certification divided by the total number of product units sold in this category, then multiply by 100. If unwilling to report, answer 0%. Include only products certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. In markets not actively participating in the ENERGY STAR program (i.e., the United States and countries listed as ENERGY STAR International Partners), products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria in the appropriate ENERGY STAR standard, even if they are not “ENERGY STAR-certified”. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® Product Specification for Lamps: Effective September 30, 2014, this specification defines the criteria for qualifying integrally-ballasted LED and CFL lamps for ENERGY STAR certification and replaces prior, separate specifications for the two lamp types. https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans | ENERGY STAR International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | Product efficiency: The performance of a product with respect to the use of energy, water, or materials. |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Electricity consumption - Linear fluorescent use | Calculate on the basis of linear fluorescent lamps manufactured alone. If unwilling to report, answer 0%. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Hong Kong Green Label Scheme: According to the Green Council website, "The HKGLS is an independent, non-profit-making and voluntary scheme for the certification of environmentally preferable products launched in December 2000 by Green Council (GC). The scheme sets environmental standards and awards "Green Label" to products that are qualified regarding their environment performance...HKGLS is an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 14024 Type 1 label, which involves a third-party certification requiring considerations of life cycle impacts." https://www.greencouncil.org/hkgls IES LM-9-09: This document describes the Illuminating Engineering Society's test method for electrical and photometric measurements of linear fluorescent lamps and all U- and circular-shaped fluorescent lamps. https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/iesna/ieslm09 | ||
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Greenhouse gas emissions - Electronic components | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on electronic component suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on electronic component suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal components | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on metal component suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on metal component suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Hazardous substances - Mercury use | N/A | ENERGY STAR International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec Hong Kong Green Label Scheme: According to the Green Council website, "The HKGLS is an independent, non-profit-making and voluntary scheme for the certification of environmentally preferable products launched in December 2000 by Green Council (GC). The scheme sets environmental standards and awards "Green Label" to products that are qualified regarding their environment performance...HKGLS is an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 14024 Type 1 label, which involves a third-party certification requiring considerations of life cycle impacts." https://www.greencouncil.org/hkgls | Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. | |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Material recovery - Product takeback | N/A | Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers: ALMR provides information about regulations and disposal options for mercury-containing lamps. http://www.almr.org/ LampRecycle: The U.S. National Electrical Manufacturers Association provides this informational website for programs and regulations regarding disposal and recycling of mercury-containing lamps. https://www.lamprecycle.org/ State of Maine's Mercury Lamp Recycling Act: This Maine law requires mercury lamp manufacturers to "individually or collectively implement a department-approved program for the recycling of mercury-added lamps sold or distributed in the State for household use" and sets recycling program standards. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/HP067501.pdf WEEELABEX: WEEELABEX standards cover the collection, logistics, and treatment of electronic wastes in all ten categories of the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. http://www.weeelabex.org/#!standards/component_41229 | Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program operation: The phrase "... operate programs in regions or countries globally where required by law or regulation" means programs that are created in response to laws or regulations. This includes State-level or Province-level legislation in North America, and national levels in other regions, such as the European Union or Japan. |
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| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate is calculated using the Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) formula. This formula can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the units of your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total units of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Fluorescent Lamps | Fluorescent Bulbs | Worker health and safety - Spent lamp handling | N/A | WEEELABEX: WEEELABEX standards cover the collection, logistics, and treatment of electronic wastes in all ten categories of the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. http://www.weeelabex.org/#!standards/component_41229 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Wastewater generation - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for COD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for BOD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for TSS, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for pH, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for temperature, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits should include verification that discharged wastewater is meeting the standards set forth by the American Apparel & Footwear Association Global Textile Effluent Guidelines for 95% of the sampling period: - Measurements for BOD and TSS should be below or equal to 30 ppm. - Measurements for COD should be below or equal to 100 ppm. - Measurements for temperature should be below or equal to 37 degrees Celsius. - Measurements for pH should be between 6.0 - 9.0. Testing should follow a rigorous and internationally accepted methodology and frequency. Local or corporate standards may be stricter. The water quality metrics ideally approach ambient conditions. Information required by the Higg Index Facility Environment Module (Higg FEM) "Wastewater - Level 2, Question 7" may be used in responding to C1-C5 if the chosen wastewater standard meets or exceeds the values listed above, or if the values of the parameters listed in the detection table meet or exceed the values listed above. The information reported to the FEM is at the facility level; if your products are produced in multiple facilities you may aggregate the data to represent the entirety of final product produced. | AWS International Water Stewardship Standard: The International Water Stewardship Standard is a globally-applicable framework that helps water users understand their water use and impacts. Developed by the Alliance for Water Stewardship, the standard addresses 1) sustainable water balance, 2) good water quality, 3) healthy important water-related areas, and 4) good water governance. https://a4ws.org/the-aws-standard-2-0/ American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) - Restricted Substance List: The AAFA provides guidelines for restricted chemicals and substances. https://www.aafaglobal.org/AAFA/Solutions_Pages/Restricted_Substance_List BHive: The BHive enables the creation and management of chemical inventories, identifies chemical products that meet sustainability credentials. The BHive enhances supply chain transparency as factories, brands, and retailers can view and compare the safety of chemical products. https://www.thebhive.net/ Cascale Higg Index: Cascale has developed indicator-based assessment tools called the Higg Index, which evaluates the sustainable practices associated with production of apparel and footwear. https://cascale.org/tools-programs/higg-index-tools/ Detox to Zero by OEKO-TEX: This analysis and assessment tool creates transparency and provides textile and leather producers the ability to control the use of hazardous substances. The tool focuses on continuous improvement and gradual reduction of harmful substances in production processes. https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/our-standards/detox-to-zero-by-oeko-tex THESIS Help Center Video: Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/448595442 | Roadmap to Zero by ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals): This plan is intended to reduce and eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals. https://www.roadmaptozero.com/ Textile Effluent Treatment Technology: The Journal of Cotton Science has produced a document addressing the treatment of textile effluent and specific wastewater management methods. http://www.cotton.org/journal/2007-11/3/upload/jcs11-141.pdf U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Effluent Limitation Guidelines: This source provides current wastewater discharge guidelines and provides resources for reducing environmental impacts from wastewater discharge. https://www.epa.gov/eg Wastewater 101 Toolbox: A free online resource for the textile industry to learn, act, and share experiences related to the treatment of wastewater. https://wastewater.sustainabilityconsortium.org/ | Biological oxygen demand (BOD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required/consumed for the microbiological decomposition (oxidation) of organic material in water bodies. Chemical oxygen demand (COD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required to oxidize an organic compound to carbon dioxide, ammonia, and water. The measurement is a proxy for the amount of organic compounds in water. Measuring COD in wastewater provides an estimated level of organic pollutants. The standard for measurement can be referenced in ISO 6060. Total suspended solids (TSS): A water quality measurement that reflects the amount of particulates in a sample. The dry weight of residue in a filter is used to calculate units in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Water use: Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. pH: A measure of a substance's acidity or basicity. The measurement is based upon the molar concentration of hydrogen (H) ions in an aqueous solution of the substance. Pure water is at a neutral pH of 7. For wastewater quality testing, measuring pH allows for benchmarking pH levels to ambient conditions existing naturally in the surrounding environment. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Home Furniture | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Wastewater generation - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for COD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for BOD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for TSS, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for pH, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for temperature, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits should include verification that discharged wastewater is meeting the standards set forth by the American Apparel & Footwear Association Global Textile Effluent Guidelines for 95% of the sampling period: - Measurements for BOD and TSS should be below or equal to 30 ppm. - Measurements for COD should be below or equal to 100 ppm. - Measurements for temperature should be below or equal to 37 degrees Celsius. - Measurements for pH should be between 6.0 - 9.0. Testing should follow a rigorous and internationally accepted methodology and frequency. Local or corporate standards may be stricter. The water quality metrics ideally approach ambient conditions. Information required by the Higg Index Facility Environment Module (Higg FEM) "Wastewater - Level 2, Question 7" may be used in responding to C1-C5 if the chosen wastewater standard meets or exceeds the values listed above, or if the values of the parameters listed in the detection table meet or exceed the values listed above. The information reported to the FEM is at the facility level; if your products are produced in multiple facilities you may aggregate the data to represent the entirety of final product produced. | AWS International Water Stewardship Standard: The International Water Stewardship Standard is a globally-applicable framework that helps water users understand their water use and impacts. Developed by the Alliance for Water Stewardship, the standard addresses 1) sustainable water balance, 2) good water quality, 3) healthy important water-related areas, and 4) good water governance. https://a4ws.org/the-aws-standard-2-0/ American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) - Restricted Substance List: The AAFA provides guidelines for restricted chemicals and substances. https://www.aafaglobal.org/AAFA/Solutions_Pages/Restricted_Substance_List BHive: The BHive enables the creation and management of chemical inventories, identifies chemical products that meet sustainability credentials. The BHive enhances supply chain transparency as factories, brands, and retailers can view and compare the safety of chemical products. https://www.thebhive.net/ Cascale Higg Index: Cascale has developed indicator-based assessment tools called the Higg Index, which evaluates the sustainable practices associated with production of apparel and footwear. https://cascale.org/tools-programs/higg-index-tools/ Detox to Zero by OEKO-TEX: This analysis and assessment tool creates transparency and provides textile and leather producers the ability to control the use of hazardous substances. The tool focuses on continuous improvement and gradual reduction of harmful substances in production processes. https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/our-standards/detox-to-zero-by-oeko-tex THESIS Help Center Video: Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/448595442 | Roadmap to Zero by ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals): This plan is intended to reduce and eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals. https://www.roadmaptozero.com/ Textile Effluent Treatment Technology: The Journal of Cotton Science has produced a document addressing the treatment of textile effluent and specific wastewater management methods. http://www.cotton.org/journal/2007-11/3/upload/jcs11-141.pdf U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Effluent Limitation Guidelines: This source provides current wastewater discharge guidelines and provides resources for reducing environmental impacts from wastewater discharge. https://www.epa.gov/eg Wastewater 101 Toolbox: A free online resource for the textile industry to learn, act, and share experiences related to the treatment of wastewater. https://wastewater.sustainabilityconsortium.org/ | Biological oxygen demand (BOD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required/consumed for the microbiological decomposition (oxidation) of organic material in water bodies. Chemical oxygen demand (COD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required to oxidize an organic compound to carbon dioxide, ammonia, and water. The measurement is a proxy for the amount of organic compounds in water. Measuring COD in wastewater provides an estimated level of organic pollutants. The standard for measurement can be referenced in ISO 6060. Total suspended solids (TSS): A water quality measurement that reflects the amount of particulates in a sample. The dry weight of residue in a filter is used to calculate units in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Water use: Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. pH: A measure of a substance's acidity or basicity. The measurement is based upon the molar concentration of hydrogen (H) ions in an aqueous solution of the substance. Pure water is at a neutral pH of 7. For wastewater quality testing, measuring pH allows for benchmarking pH levels to ambient conditions existing naturally in the surrounding environment. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Luggage | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Wastewater generation - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for COD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for BOD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for TSS, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for pH, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for temperature, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits should include verification that discharged wastewater is meeting the standards set forth by the American Apparel & Footwear Association Global Textile Effluent Guidelines for 95% of the sampling period: - Measurements for BOD and TSS should be below or equal to 30 ppm. - Measurements for COD should be below or equal to 100 ppm. - Measurements for temperature should be below or equal to 37 degrees Celsius. - Measurements for pH should be between 6.0 - 9.0. Testing should follow a rigorous and internationally accepted methodology and frequency. Local or corporate standards may be stricter. The water quality metrics ideally approach ambient conditions. Information required by the Higg Index Facility Environment Module (Higg FEM) "Wastewater - Level 2, Question 7" may be used in responding to C1-C5 if the chosen wastewater standard meets or exceeds the values listed above, or if the values of the parameters listed in the detection table meet or exceed the values listed above. The information reported to the FEM is at the facility level; if your products are produced in multiple facilities you may aggregate the data to represent the entirety of final product produced. | AWS International Water Stewardship Standard: The International Water Stewardship Standard is a globally-applicable framework that helps water users understand their water use and impacts. Developed by the Alliance for Water Stewardship, the standard addresses 1) sustainable water balance, 2) good water quality, 3) healthy important water-related areas, and 4) good water governance. https://a4ws.org/the-aws-standard-2-0/ American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) - Restricted Substance List: The AAFA provides guidelines for restricted chemicals and substances. https://www.aafaglobal.org/AAFA/Solutions_Pages/Restricted_Substance_List BHive: The BHive enables the creation and management of chemical inventories, identifies chemical products that meet sustainability credentials. The BHive enhances supply chain transparency as factories, brands, and retailers can view and compare the safety of chemical products. https://www.thebhive.net/ Cascale Higg Index: Cascale has developed indicator-based assessment tools called the Higg Index, which evaluates the sustainable practices associated with production of apparel and footwear. https://cascale.org/tools-programs/higg-index-tools/ Detox to Zero by OEKO-TEX: This analysis and assessment tool creates transparency and provides textile and leather producers the ability to control the use of hazardous substances. The tool focuses on continuous improvement and gradual reduction of harmful substances in production processes. https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/our-standards/detox-to-zero-by-oeko-tex THESIS Help Center Video: Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/448595442 | Roadmap to Zero by ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals): This plan is intended to reduce and eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals. https://www.roadmaptozero.com/ Textile Effluent Treatment Technology: The Journal of Cotton Science has produced a document addressing the treatment of textile effluent and specific wastewater management methods. http://www.cotton.org/journal/2007-11/3/upload/jcs11-141.pdf U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Effluent Limitation Guidelines: This source provides current wastewater discharge guidelines and provides resources for reducing environmental impacts from wastewater discharge. https://www.epa.gov/eg Wastewater 101 Toolbox: A free online resource for the textile industry to learn, act, and share experiences related to the treatment of wastewater. https://wastewater.sustainabilityconsortium.org/ | Biological oxygen demand (BOD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required/consumed for the microbiological decomposition (oxidation) of organic material in water bodies. Chemical oxygen demand (COD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required to oxidize an organic compound to carbon dioxide, ammonia, and water. The measurement is a proxy for the amount of organic compounds in water. Measuring COD in wastewater provides an estimated level of organic pollutants. The standard for measurement can be referenced in ISO 6060. Total suspended solids (TSS): A water quality measurement that reflects the amount of particulates in a sample. The dry weight of residue in a filter is used to calculate units in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Water use: Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. pH: A measure of a substance's acidity or basicity. The measurement is based upon the molar concentration of hydrogen (H) ions in an aqueous solution of the substance. Pure water is at a neutral pH of 7. For wastewater quality testing, measuring pH allows for benchmarking pH levels to ambient conditions existing naturally in the surrounding environment. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Mattresses | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Wastewater generation - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for COD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for BOD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for TSS, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for pH, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for temperature, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits should include verification that discharged wastewater is meeting the standards set forth by the American Apparel & Footwear Association Global Textile Effluent Guidelines for 95% of the sampling period: - Measurements for BOD and TSS should be below or equal to 30 ppm. - Measurements for COD should be below or equal to 100 ppm. - Measurements for temperature should be below or equal to 37 degrees Celsius. - Measurements for pH should be between 6.0 - 9.0. Testing should follow a rigorous and internationally accepted methodology and frequency. Local or corporate standards may be stricter. The water quality metrics ideally approach ambient conditions. Information required by the Higg Index Facility Environment Module (Higg FEM) "Wastewater - Level 2, Question 7" may be used in responding to C1-C5 if the chosen wastewater standard meets or exceeds the values listed above, or if the values of the parameters listed in the detection table meet or exceed the values listed above. The information reported to the FEM is at the facility level; if your products are produced in multiple facilities you may aggregate the data to represent the entirety of final product produced. | AWS International Water Stewardship Standard: The International Water Stewardship Standard is a globally-applicable framework that helps water users understand their water use and impacts. Developed by the Alliance for Water Stewardship, the standard addresses 1) sustainable water balance, 2) good water quality, 3) healthy important water-related areas, and 4) good water governance. https://a4ws.org/the-aws-standard-2-0/ American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) - Restricted Substance List: The AAFA provides guidelines for restricted chemicals and substances. https://www.aafaglobal.org/AAFA/Solutions_Pages/Restricted_Substance_List BHive: The BHive enables the creation and management of chemical inventories, identifies chemical products that meet sustainability credentials. The BHive enhances supply chain transparency as factories, brands, and retailers can view and compare the safety of chemical products. https://www.thebhive.net/ Cascale Higg Index: Cascale has developed indicator-based assessment tools called the Higg Index, which evaluates the sustainable practices associated with production of apparel and footwear. https://cascale.org/tools-programs/higg-index-tools/ Detox to Zero by OEKO-TEX: This analysis and assessment tool creates transparency and provides textile and leather producers the ability to control the use of hazardous substances. The tool focuses on continuous improvement and gradual reduction of harmful substances in production processes. https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/our-standards/detox-to-zero-by-oeko-tex THESIS Help Center Video: Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/448595442 | Roadmap to Zero by ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals): This plan is intended to reduce and eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals. https://www.roadmaptozero.com/ Textile Effluent Treatment Technology: The Journal of Cotton Science has produced a document addressing the treatment of textile effluent and specific wastewater management methods. http://www.cotton.org/journal/2007-11/3/upload/jcs11-141.pdf U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Effluent Limitation Guidelines: This source provides current wastewater discharge guidelines and provides resources for reducing environmental impacts from wastewater discharge. https://www.epa.gov/eg Wastewater 101 Toolbox: A free online resource for the textile industry to learn, act, and share experiences related to the treatment of wastewater. https://wastewater.sustainabilityconsortium.org/ | Biological oxygen demand (BOD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required/consumed for the microbiological decomposition (oxidation) of organic material in water bodies. Chemical oxygen demand (COD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required to oxidize an organic compound to carbon dioxide, ammonia, and water. The measurement is a proxy for the amount of organic compounds in water. Measuring COD in wastewater provides an estimated level of organic pollutants. The standard for measurement can be referenced in ISO 6060. Total suspended solids (TSS): A water quality measurement that reflects the amount of particulates in a sample. The dry weight of residue in a filter is used to calculate units in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Water use: Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. pH: A measure of a substance's acidity or basicity. The measurement is based upon the molar concentration of hydrogen (H) ions in an aqueous solution of the substance. Pure water is at a neutral pH of 7. For wastewater quality testing, measuring pH allows for benchmarking pH levels to ambient conditions existing naturally in the surrounding environment. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Other Furniture | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | ||
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Wastewater generation - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for COD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for BOD, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met or exceeded the standard for TSS, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for pH, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the mass of textile fabric from wet processing facilities that have undergone supplier audits and met the standard for temperature, divided by the total textile fabric from all wet processing facilities, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits should include verification that discharged wastewater is meeting the standards set forth by the American Apparel & Footwear Association Global Textile Effluent Guidelines for 95% of the sampling period: - Measurements for BOD and TSS should be below or equal to 30 ppm. - Measurements for COD should be below or equal to 100 ppm. - Measurements for temperature should be below or equal to 37 degrees Celsius. - Measurements for pH should be between 6.0 - 9.0. Testing should follow a rigorous and internationally accepted methodology and frequency. Local or corporate standards may be stricter. The water quality metrics ideally approach ambient conditions. Information required by the Higg Index Facility Environment Module (Higg FEM) "Wastewater - Level 2, Question 7" may be used in responding to C1-C5 if the chosen wastewater standard meets or exceeds the values listed above, or if the values of the parameters listed in the detection table meet or exceed the values listed above. The information reported to the FEM is at the facility level; if your products are produced in multiple facilities you may aggregate the data to represent the entirety of final product produced. | AWS International Water Stewardship Standard: The International Water Stewardship Standard is a globally-applicable framework that helps water users understand their water use and impacts. Developed by the Alliance for Water Stewardship, the standard addresses 1) sustainable water balance, 2) good water quality, 3) healthy important water-related areas, and 4) good water governance. https://a4ws.org/the-aws-standard-2-0/ American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) - Restricted Substance List: The AAFA provides guidelines for restricted chemicals and substances. https://www.aafaglobal.org/AAFA/Solutions_Pages/Restricted_Substance_List BHive: The BHive enables the creation and management of chemical inventories, identifies chemical products that meet sustainability credentials. The BHive enhances supply chain transparency as factories, brands, and retailers can view and compare the safety of chemical products. https://www.thebhive.net/ Cascale Higg Index: Cascale has developed indicator-based assessment tools called the Higg Index, which evaluates the sustainable practices associated with production of apparel and footwear. https://cascale.org/tools-programs/higg-index-tools/ Detox to Zero by OEKO-TEX: This analysis and assessment tool creates transparency and provides textile and leather producers the ability to control the use of hazardous substances. The tool focuses on continuous improvement and gradual reduction of harmful substances in production processes. https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/our-standards/detox-to-zero-by-oeko-tex THESIS Help Center Video: Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Wastewater generation - Supply Chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/448595442 | Roadmap to Zero by ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals): This plan is intended to reduce and eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals. https://www.roadmaptozero.com/ Textile Effluent Treatment Technology: The Journal of Cotton Science has produced a document addressing the treatment of textile effluent and specific wastewater management methods. http://www.cotton.org/journal/2007-11/3/upload/jcs11-141.pdf U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Effluent Limitation Guidelines: This source provides current wastewater discharge guidelines and provides resources for reducing environmental impacts from wastewater discharge. https://www.epa.gov/eg Wastewater 101 Toolbox: A free online resource for the textile industry to learn, act, and share experiences related to the treatment of wastewater. https://wastewater.sustainabilityconsortium.org/ | Biological oxygen demand (BOD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required/consumed for the microbiological decomposition (oxidation) of organic material in water bodies. Chemical oxygen demand (COD): An indicator for the amount of oxygen required to oxidize an organic compound to carbon dioxide, ammonia, and water. The measurement is a proxy for the amount of organic compounds in water. Measuring COD in wastewater provides an estimated level of organic pollutants. The standard for measurement can be referenced in ISO 6060. Total suspended solids (TSS): A water quality measurement that reflects the amount of particulates in a sample. The dry weight of residue in a filter is used to calculate units in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Water use: Water use is defined as total withdrawals from municipal and private water providers, surface water, groundwater, or wells. pH: A measure of a substance's acidity or basicity. The measurement is based upon the molar concentration of hydrogen (H) ions in an aqueous solution of the substance. Pure water is at a neutral pH of 7. For wastewater quality testing, measuring pH allows for benchmarking pH levels to ambient conditions existing naturally in the surrounding environment. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Furniture and Luggage | Patio Furniture, Hammocks, and Cots | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Air Beds and Inflatable Furniture | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Appliance Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Art and Craft Materials and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Accents and Décor (Non-powered) | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Art, Craft, and Office Tools | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Accessories and Parts | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Automotive Tools and Repair | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Baby Play and Travel Gear | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Boards and Easels | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Boat and Water Craft Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Canopies, Umbrellas, Shelters, Furniture Covers | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Cat Litter | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Cleaning Tools and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Consumer Electronics Cables | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Coolers | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Coolers | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Coolers | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Desk Organizers and Office storage | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Diagnostic Kits | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Disposable Dishware and Utensils | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Exercise and Fitness Equipment | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Fire Extinguishers | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Fishing Supplies and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Gift Packaging and Party Supplies | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Grills | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Grills | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Grills | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Grills | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Grills | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Grills | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Home Improvement Supplies and Materials | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Kitchenware | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Ladders, Dollies, Hand Trucks | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Lamps and Lighting Fixtures | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Lawn, Garden, Patio Accessories (Non-Powered) | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Mailing and Packaging Supplies | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Medical Aids and Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Mobile Device Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Musical Instruments - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Nursery and Feeding Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Office and School Supplies | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Bed and Bath | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Consumer Electronics Media and Accessories - non powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Health and Beauty - Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Home Consumables | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Other Toys | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Painting Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pens, Markers, Mechanical Pencils | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Personal Protective Equipment | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pest Traps | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pet Toys | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Pots, Planters, and Outdoor Décor | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Seasonal Décor - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Shelving and Racks | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Shoe Cleaning and Repair Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Skateboards, Scooters, Skates | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Soil, Mulch, Soil Amendments | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Sports Equipment | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Sports, Outdoor and Fitness Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Storage and Organization Products | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Sunglasses and Eyewear | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Targets, Decoys and Hunting Accessories | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Certification - Paper and wood sourcing | Calculate C1 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that only underwent third-party legality verification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Do not include in this calculation any supply that is included under one of the other response options. Calculate C2 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that had FSC Controlled Wood certification, divided by the total dry mass of your paper or wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard or sourced under a PEFC-Due Diligence System, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C4 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was FSC-certified, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C5 as the dry mass of your paper and wood supply that was SFI-certified or certified under another PEFC-endorsed program, divided by the total dry mass of your paper and wood supply, then multiply by 100. The sum of C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5 must not exceed 100%. Do not include the same paper or wood supply in the calculation of more than one response option. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | CERFLOR - Brazilian Forest Certification Program: This organization is an independent, third-party certification program that focuses on sustainable management of natural and planted Amazonian tropical forests. CERFLOR is a PEFC-endorsed certification. https://www.pefc.org/discover-pefc/our-pefc-members/national-members/brazilian-forest-certification-programme-cerflor CSA - Canadian Standards Association: CSA Group is an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization that provides consumer product evaluation, education, and training services dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability, and social good. Some programs include environmental product performance, management systems and processes, registry services, worker and workplace safety, energy efficiency verification, and greenhouse gas clean projects. Programs specific to wood sourcing are outlined in Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. CSA is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.csagroup.org/ EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Volunteer Partnership Agreement: Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are a central element of the EU's strategy in the fight against illegal logging. A VPA is a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and a timber-exporting country outside the EU. https://www.euflegt.efi.int/vpa FSC Controlled Wood: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood is non-certified material subject to controlled conditions that can be mixed with FSC-certified material during manufacturing FSC-Mix products. This has enabled manufacturers to manage low and fluctuating supplies of FSC certified forest products, while creating demand for FSC certified wood. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/controlled-wood FSC Forest Certification: Products with FSC certification come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. The following website provides more information related to the principles that guide the certification process. https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification Forest Legality Alliance's Risk Tool: This tool is designed to present useful information about the sourcing of forest products. You can search the tool's content by country or by species to find specific information. https://forestlegality.org/risk-tool/ PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Due Diligence System: The PEFC DDS is an integral part of the PEFC Chain of Custody standard and is the mechanism that avoids the inclusion of timber from controversial sources in products with a PEFC claim. https://www.pefc.org/for-business/supply-chain-companies PEFC - Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification: The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) provides guidance for integrating best practices for the entire forest supply chain to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with consideration of ecological, social, and ethical standards. http://www.pefc.org SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Fiber Sourcing Standard: The SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard is for organizations that do not own or manage land but do procure wood directly from forests. Program Participants must show that the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not. Primary producers must be third-party audited and certified to the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. https://www.sfiprogram.org/fibersourcingstandard/ SFI - Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Standard: The SFI Standard addresses sustainable forest management and responsible sourcing. SFI also has a chain of custody standard to track wood and paper flow through the supply chain. SFI is a PEFC-endorsed program. http://www.sfiprogram.org/sfi-standard/ | ||
| General Merchandise | Tents | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Leather impacts - Supply chain | Calculate C1 as the mass of your leather supply that was traced to the slaughterhouse operation of origin, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of leather materials that came from suppliers that either maintain a current comprehensive animal welfare certification or verifiable, regularly conducted animal welfare audits, divided by the total mass of our leather material supply, then multiply by 100. Verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Regulations, audits, and certifications that align with the animal welfare standards as described in Section 7 of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial/Aquatic Animal Health Code and are well-enforced by the implementation of auditing systems can be included in your calculation. Farm stage: Minimization of pain, risk of injury, and transmission of diseases or parasites to animals; a physical environment in which the air or water quality, temperature, and humidity supports good animal health; a structural and social environment that allows animals to rest comfortably, provides opportunities for physical and cognitive activity, and allows for the opportunity to perform all beneficial natural, individual, and social behaviors. Animals should have access to sufficient water and appropriate feed, so as to be free from hunger and thirst. The handling of animals should foster a positive relationship between humans and animals and should not cause injury, panic, lasting fear, or avoidable stress. Genetic selection should take into account the health and welfare of animals. Transportation stage: Animals should not be transported if they are not fit to travel. For those animals fit to travel, the number of journeys and the length of time should be minimized. Loading and unloading procedures should minimize animal stress, prevent injury, and use facilities that promote calm and safe animal movement. Protection from extreme temperatures and other extreme weather conditions is provided. Adequate feed and water is available when required. Slaughter stage: Animals should be treated humanely before and during all slaughter procedures, including pre-slaughter stunning for non-ritual slaughter. The pre-slaughter stunning must render the animal insensible to pain until death occurs. The minimization of fear, stress, and pain is included in humane treatment. TSC provides a list of animal welfare certifications, standards, and programs to assist users in choosing a program that aligns with their needs. See Background Information for more details. Calculate C3 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that either maintain a current comprehensive environmental impact certification or verifiable, regularly conducted environmental impact audit, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The certification or audits should address all material environmental impacts including, but not limited to, chemical use, energy consumption, water usage, air and noise emissions, and waste and effluent management. Material audited by The Leather Working Group may be included in the calculation of C3. Calculate C4 as the mass of your leather supply that came from tannery operations that regularly and verifiably conducted audits for worker health and safety, divided by the total mass of your leather supply, then multiply by 100. The audits should address all worker health and safety concerns, including, but not limited to, equipment training, chemical exposure, noise exposure, dust exposure, and accident record keeping. To be included in C2, C3 and C4, verifiable, regularly conducted audits should be performed by a second party or third party. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain can initiate these audits. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| General Merchandise | Tents | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise | Tents | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise | Tents | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise | Tents | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Nurdle Patrol: Nurdle Patrol is a citizen science initiative from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute that measures and tracks the volumes of plastic pellets washing up on shore and educate the public on the issue. https://nurdlepatrol.org/Forms/Home/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise | Tents | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Air Handling and Heating Appliances | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Art, Craft, and Office Tools - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Automotive Tools and Repair - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Camping Accessories and Travel Equipment - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Clocks and Watches - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Diagnostic Kits - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Garden and Outdoor Equipment, Accessories and Tools - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Musical Instruments - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Nursery and Feeding Accessories - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Other Large Appliances | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Pet Grooming Equipment | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Seasonal Décor - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for E1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the spend on materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total revenue of produced product. Calculate B2 as the revenue of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate C1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in D1. Calculate D1 as the number of product units returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate C1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue from your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| General Merchandise - Powered Products | Sports Equipment - Powered | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Glass Products | Glass Products | Airborne emissions tracking - Combustion processes | Airborne emissions include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter. | European Commission's BAT Reference Document for the Manufacture of Glass: This document describes the best available techniques for integrated pollution prevention and control in the glass manufacturing industry. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ff8a3955-d0d0-46f5-8a15-4b638896cb56 ISO 50001 - Energy Management: According to their website, "ISO 50001 is based on the management system model of continual improvement also used for other well-known standards such as ISO 9001 or ISO 14001. This standard integrates the energy management processes with an organization's quality improvement processes and provides a holistic approach to environmental systems management." https://www.iso.org/iso-50001-energy-management.html | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Glass Products | Glass Products | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | European Commission's BAT Reference Document for the Manufacture of Glass: This document describes the best available techniques for integrated pollution prevention and control in the glass manufacturing industry. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ff8a3955-d0d0-46f5-8a15-4b638896cb56 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Glass Products | Glass Products | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™: Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™ provides a standard of performance for manufacturers regarding product sustainability and material safety. Individual product assessments are performed by independent and trained third parties and certifications are made by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Glass Products | Glass Products | Recycled content - Glass | Calculate B1 as the mass of externally-sourced cullet divided by the total mass of glass across all product units manufactured, then multiply by 100. Exclude glass recycled from manufacturing processes from your calculation. ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | Cullet: Glass waste or scrap that may be recycled for use. | ||
| Glass Products | Glass Products | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Glass Products | Glass Products | Wastewater discharge - Glass polishing, acids | Wastewater may be treated on site or via contractual arrangement with external wastewater treatment facilities (e.g., municipal wastewater treatment plants). | European Commission's BAT Reference Document for the Manufacture of Glass: This document describes the best available techniques for integrated pollution prevention and control in the glass manufacturing industry. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ff8a3955-d0d0-46f5-8a15-4b638896cb56 | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Glass Products | Glass Products | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Glass Products | Glass Products | Worker health and safety - Mineral supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your minerals supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your minerals supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Energy efficiency - Use phase | Calculate C1 as the number of units sold that meet the criteria for this question divided by the total number of units sold, then multiply by 100. Include all units that were shipped with power management or energy efficiency attributes enabled, regardless of whether required by law. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Energy efficiency attributes: Product design attributes such as low power motors or more efficient air circulation that increase the energy efficiency of a product above market average. Power management features: Product design features that enable users to manage product energy use, such as variable heat or speed settings, or that automatically control energy use, such as auto-off after a set time. |
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| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions - Battery supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the number of batteries purchased from battery suppliers that reported emissions divided by total number purchased from all battery suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from metal suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all metal suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Product end-of-life | N/A | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Recycled content - Metal | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled metal divided by the total mass of metal used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Responsible battery management | N/A | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Responsible metals supply | Calculate B1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. |
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| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Worker health and safety - Battery supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Worker health and safety - Metal supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Energy efficiency - Use phase | Calculate C1 as the number of units sold that meet the criteria for this question divided by the total number of units sold, then multiply by 100. Include all units that were shipped with power management or energy efficiency attributes enabled, regardless of whether required by law. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Energy efficiency attributes: Product design attributes such as low power motors or more efficient air circulation that increase the energy efficiency of a product above market average. Power management features: Product design features that enable users to manage product energy use, such as variable heat or speed settings, or that automatically control energy use, such as auto-off after a set time. |
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| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Battery supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the number of batteries purchased from battery suppliers that reported emissions divided by total number purchased from all battery suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from metal suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all metal suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Product end-of-life | N/A | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Recycled content - Metal | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled metal divided by the total mass of metal used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Responsible battery management | N/A | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Responsible metals supply | Calculate B1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. |
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| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Battery supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Lawn and Garden Tools - Non-powered | Worker health and safety - Metal supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Energy efficiency - Use phase | Calculate C1 as the number of units sold that meet the criteria for this question divided by the total number of units sold, then multiply by 100. Include all units that were shipped with power management or energy efficiency attributes enabled, regardless of whether required by law. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Energy efficiency attributes: Product design attributes such as low power motors or more efficient air circulation that increase the energy efficiency of a product above market average. Power management features: Product design features that enable users to manage product energy use, such as variable heat or speed settings, or that automatically control energy use, such as auto-off after a set time. |
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| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions - Battery supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the number of batteries purchased from battery suppliers that reported emissions divided by total number purchased from all battery suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from metal suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all metal suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Product end-of-life | N/A | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Recycled content - Metal | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled metal divided by the total mass of metal used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Responsible battery management | N/A | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Responsible metals supply | Calculate B1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. |
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| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Worker health and safety - Battery supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the number of battery units purchased that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total number of battery units purchased, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Hand Tools | Power Tools | Worker health and safety - Metal supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Animal testing - Alternative approaches | This question is applicable to testing that occurs by your organization or a contracted organization. Toxicity endpoints include those that are used to perform a hazard assessment that may be required for by regulatory agencies or authorities. An overview of applicable toxicity endpoints and animal alternatives along with their validation status can be found at "AltTox.org - Toxicity Endpoints & Tests" in the Background Information section of this KPI. Major research initiatives are government, university, or privately based programs that are dedicated to the replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal testing by advancing non-animal alternative testing methods through effective development, validation, use, and/or communication. Examples of major research initiatives include, but are not limited to, JaCVAM, ECVAM, ICCVAM, CAAT, and ZEBET. | AltTox.org: According to their website, "AltTox.org is a website dedicated to advancing non-animal methods of toxicity testing, both to better protect the health of humans, animals, and the environment and to reduce the numbers and suffering of animals used in current toxicology assessments." http://www.alttox.org/spotlight/055.html Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation (DZF): According to their website, "The Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation has continued to actively support a number of projects in the field of alternatives to animal testing in biomedical sciences." http://www.doerenkamp.ch/en/default.html?id=11 European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM): EURL ECVAM is dedicated to the advancement of animal testing alternatives by promoting non-animal alternatives through scientific research, validation, and independent evaluation. ECVAM’s ultimate goal is enhanced safety at multiple life cycle stages with decreased reliance on animal testing. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/eurl/ecvam Japanese Center for Validation of Alternative Methods (JaCVAM): JaCVAM is an institute that is dedicated to the promotion of the reduction, refinement, and replacement of animal testing used to justify chemical safety in Japan. This mission is achieved in part through international collaboration. https://www.jacvam.jp/en/index.html Japanese Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments: This site contains a link to The Center of Alternatives Methods for Safety Evaluation of Cosmetics. http://www.asas.or.jp/jsaae/eng/outline/index.html National Center for Evaluation and Documentation of Alternative Methods to Animal Experiments at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (ZEBET): According to the BfR website, the ZEBET "Unit supports the development and use of alternative methods to animal experiments." https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/unit__centre_for_documentation_and_evaluation_of_alternative_methods_to_animal_experiments__zebet_-53868.html National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research: According to their website, "The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) is a leader in the discovery and application of new technologies and approaches to minimize the use of animals for research purposes and improve their welfare (the 3Rs). Primarily funded by the government, charitable and private donations, NC3R funds research, supports training and development, and stimulates changes in regulations and practice." https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/ The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM): ICCVAM is an interagency committee composed of representatives from 15 U.S. federal regulatory and research agencies that require, use, generate, or disseminate toxicological and safety testing information used to determine the safety or potential adverse health effects of chemicals and products to which workers and consumers may be exposed. https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/niceatm/iccvam/index.html | ||
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Consumer education - Pesticide use and disposal | Calculate C1 as the number of the products (SKUs) in your portfolio for which you publicly disclose one or more inert ingredients (co-formulants), excluding water, divided by the total number of products in your portfolio, then multiply by 100. Do not weight the calculation by sales or production volume. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | Inert Ingredient List for Non-Food Pesticides (USEPA): This site lists the inert ingredients approved for use in non-food pesticides by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. http://iaspub.epa.gov/apex/pesticides/f?p=INERTFINDER:1:0::NO:1:: | Inert ingredient: Any non-active ingredient included in a pesticide formulation. Also called a "co-formulant" (EU). | |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Formulation safety - Product design and tracking | Lower impact formulations might be achieved by such means as informed substitution for organic solvents, encapsulation techniques for controlled release, and use of additives that enhance the target-specific activity of the active ingredient(s). Examples of post-market surveillance activities might include participation in or support of field studies examining pesticide effects on ecological endpoints not covered in regulator required testing or participation in or support of epidemiological monitoring studies of human health impacts either at the ingredient or formulation level. | Informed substitution: Informed substitution implies that factors such as cost and performance, technical feasibility, life cycle impacts, economic and social accountability, and potential to result in lasting change have been taken into consideration to ensure that substitutes and the final product are safer based on their health and environmental profiles (Adapted from United States Environmental Protection Agency Design for Environment Program Alternative Assessment information). | ||
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Greenhouse gas emissions - Active ingredient suppliers | This question addresses only suppliers external to your organization. Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate C1 as the mass purchased from active ingredient suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all active ingredient suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GHG Protocol Product Standard: To determine GHG emissions, use the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development's GHG protocol product standard. https://ghgprotocol.org/product-standard GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Ingredient and formula manufacturers | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that manufacture active ingredients used in your formulations, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate C1 using ingredient-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is non-ingredient specific. If using ingredient-specific data, calculate C1 as the average of each active ingredient's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total mass produced of each active ingredient. If using facility data, calculate C1 as the average of each facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total mass of active ingredients produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using the total mass of production specific to the product category in question. Calculate C2 as the mass of active ingredients for which you are able to obtain data divided by total mass of active ingredients produced, then multiply by 100. For each active ingredient manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Persistent and bioaccumulative chemicals management | Non-persistent and non-bioaccumulative chemicals are those that do not meet or exceed any one of the criteria listed here through a satisfactory review by a governmental regulatory authority, such as an authority from an OECD participating country: "(a) the degradation half-life in marine water is higher than 60 days; (b) the degradation half-life in fresh or estuarine water is higher than 40 days; (c) the degradation half-life in marine sediment is higher than 180 days; (d) the degradation half-life in fresh or estuarine water sediment is higher than 120 days; (e) the degradation half-life in soil is higher than 120 days;" and (f) "the bioconcentration factor in aquatic species is higher than 2000." (from REACH, 2014. Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment, version 2.0. Finland: European Chemical Agency). Calculate B1 as the mass of non-persistent/non-bioaccumulative active ingredients divided by the total mass of active ingredients, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using the masses of active ingredients across all formulations produced. Derived (mathematically modeled) data may be used if and only if empirical data are unavailable. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. Chemical data collection and reviews must be recognized by relevant authorities of the country or countries where the final products are sold. The specific assays used to evaluate the ingredient in question against these endpoints may vary by country, but all endpoints must be assessed before an ingredient may be declared non-persistent and non-bioaccumulative. | EC 253/2011 (REACH) Annex XIII: This annex of the European Community's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations defines what is meant by persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:069:0007:0012:EN:PDF | GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: GreenScreen is a "Chemical Hazard Assessment" method that can be used to identify chemicals of high concern and determine safer alternatives. The tool was developed and is administered by Clean Production Action. A second tool, the GreenScreen List Translator, is a publicly available abbreviated version that screens and classifies chemicals based solely on their presence on authoritative hazard lists. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/ | |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Wastewater management - Chemical supply chain | This question only applies to direct discharges of treated or untreated effluent to surface waters. Calculate C1 as the mass of chemical ingredients provided by compliant facilities divided by the total mass provided by all facilities, then multiply by 100. Include ingredients produced by external and internal suppliers. Treat masses obtained from facilities whose performance is unknown as non-compliant. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Compliance must be demonstrated through an on-site audit by a second or third party in accordance with an internationally recognized standard or by reporting publicly to an appropriate governmental authority. Compliance requires that undiluted effluent meets pollutant guideline values established in the International Finance Corporation's (IFC’s) Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Large Volume Petroleum-based Organic Chemicals Manufacturing (2007, Table 2) or IFC's Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Large Volume Inorganic Compounds Manufacturing and Coal Tar Distillation (2007, Table 2) or IFC's Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Pesticide Manufacturing, Formulation and Packaging (2007, Table 2), as appropriate for the type of facility being assessed. Only chemicals addressed by these documents should be considered in the calculation. Available data must demonstrate satisfaction of all criteria presented in the IFC guidelines, and at least 75% of the IFC criteria must be quantified by available data. Maximum concentrations of pollutants, as measured at the point of discharge, must not exceed the IFC guidelines on any single day. Monitoring programs should conform to an internationally recognized standard for the collection and analysis of samples. | International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety General Guidelines for Large Volume Inorganic Compounds Manufacturing: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker health and safety at facilities that manufacture inorganic chemicals or distill coal tar. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/policies-standards/ehs-guidelines International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Large Volume Petroleum-based Organic Chemicals Manufacturing: This IFC guidance document outlines best practices for pollution reduction and worker safety at petrochemical plants. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/policies-standards/ehs-guidelines International Finance Corporation: Environmental, Health, and Safety for Pesticide Manufacturing: This IFC guidance document outlines performance targets and best available practices for addressing environmental, health, and safety issues in pesticide manufacturing, formulation, and packaging. https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at-ifc/policies-standards/ehs-guidelines | ASTM E2107-06: This standard from the American Society for Testing and Materials defines minimum requirements applicable to regulatory environmental compliance audits. http://www.astm.org/Standards/E2107.htm ECHO Water Pollution Search: This tool from the United States EPA allows public querying of data quantifying effluent discharges from American facilities. https://echo.epa.gov/trends/loading-tool/water-pollution-search ISO 14001: This standard from the International Organization for Standardization governs the two-stage assessment of a company's environmental management systems. https://www.iso.org/standard/60857.html ISO 5667-1: This standard from the International Organization for Standardization provides guidance and establishes principles for the design of water monitoring programs and techniques. https://www.iso.org/standard/84099.html | Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Worker health and safety - Chemical supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your chemical supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your chemical supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your chemical supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your chemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your chemical supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your chemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your chemical supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your chemical supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your chemical supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your chemical supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Household Pesticides | Household Pesticides | Worker health and safety - Pesticide manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the mass of your final product for which you were able to obtain data, divided by the total mass of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Incandescent Lamps | Incandescent Bulbs | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| Incandescent Lamps | Incandescent Bulbs | Consumer education - Product use | N/A | Energy Independence and Security Act messaging guidelines: Messaging guidelines published by the Bonneville Power Administration regarding proper light bulb packaging labels to meet the requirements of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. https://www.bpa.gov/ee/utility/marketing/marketingmaterials/eisaguidelines.pdf Energy efficiency - Residential Lighting: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) provides useful information regarding light bulb choice for consumers, retailers and manufacturers. https://www.bpa.gov/EE/Sectors/Residential/Pages/default.aspx | Multi-stakeholder initiatives: Adapted from World Wildlife Fund multi-stakeholder initiative definition: Multi-stakeholder initiatives can be internal or external and are defined as those that utilize collaboration and consensus-based techniques to create a set of principles, criteria, and indicators for more responsible production, sourcing, and manufacturing practices within or across a given sector or product. This may result in a standard that is used to verify, accredit, or certify a product. MSIs do not always result in certification schemes, but they may develop measurement tools or share best management practices (BMP). | |
| Incandescent Lamps | Incandescent Bulbs | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Incandescent Lamps | Incandescent Bulbs | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Greenhouse gas emissions - Lead supply | This question addresses all purchased lead and lead oxide, including quantities purchased on commodity markets that may not have this information readily available. Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from lead and lead oxide suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all lead and lead oxide suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Greenhouse gas emissions - Plastics supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from plastics suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all plastics suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including grid casting, paste mixing, and three-process operation facilities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., a facility that produces finished or semi-finished batteries for you). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total number of units produced. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total number of units produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using unit production data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the number units of final product for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total units of final products produced, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Particulate control - Battery manufacturing and recycling | Facilities covered by this question include grid casting, paste mixing, and three-process operation facilities, as well as company-owned recycling or recovery centers, if applicable. Calculate D1 as the number of facilities about which you have publicly reported divided by the total number of facilities, then multiply by 100. The last day of the 12-month reporting period must be within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | BEST Standard: The Better Environmental Sustainability Targets (BEST) standard for lead-acid batteries provides sustainability benchmarks for manufacturers on issues including energy use, lead particulate emissions, occupational lead exposure, water use, and others. http://www.okinternational.org/lead-batteries/BEST-Standard | ||
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Particulate control - Supply chain | Include in this calculation all purchased lead, including quantities purchased on commodity markets that may not have this information readily available. Also include all lead supplied in the form of finished or semi-finished batteries that are purchased for resale from third-party suppliers. Calculate B1 as the mass of lead and lead oxide purchased from reporting facilities divided by the total mass of lead purchased, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Reporting can occur through public disclosure, or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization either directly or indirectly through meeting representative performance benchmarks established by another third party, such as an industry or trade association. | |||
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Product stewardship programs - Lead-acid batteries | This question addresses both the direct "take back" programs coordinated by the manufacturer and third-party efforts to encourage responsible recycling of lead-acid batteries, where possible. Regulatory, legal, and commercial impediments may exist in some regions prohibiting the direct returns of used lead-acid batteries to the original manufacturer. | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. | ||
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Recycled Content - Lead | Include both pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled material. Exclude lead recycled from battery manufacturing facilities. Calculate C1 as the combined mass of recycled lead and lead oxide divided by the total combined mass of lead and lead oxide used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) | |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Recycled Content - Plastic | Recycled plastic can include both pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled material, but should exclude plastic recycled from battery manufacturing facilities. Calculate C1 as the mass of recycled plastic divided by the total mass of plastic used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply the result by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Worker health and safety - Blood-lead levels | Facilities covered include grid casting, paste mixing, three-process operation, lead oxide manufacturing facilities, as well as company-owned recycling or recovery centers, if applicable. At-risk employees include those who are exposed to 30 micrograms of lead per cubic meter of air or greater, averaged over an 8-hour period, for more than 30 days per year. Testing should be performed on each at-risk employee at least every six months by or under the supervision of a licensed physician. The reported percentages must sum to 100%. | Eurobat Lead Recommendation: European battery manufacturers and Battery Council International developed a joint commitment to reduce blood-lead levels in workers in the lead-based battery sector. https://www.eurobat.org/news-publications/press-releases/100-lead-and-lead-battery-industries-announce-ambitious-new-targets-to-protect-workers OSHA Lead Battery Manufacturing eTool: This web-based training tool from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration provides information on how to mitigate lead exposure at the process level in lead-acid battery manufacturing facilities. https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/battery_manufacturing/ OSHA Standard 1910.1025: This standard provided by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) details regulatory limits for occupational exposure to lead. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1025 | ||
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Worker health and safety - Lead supply chain | Include in this calculation all purchased lead, including quantities purchased on commodity markets that may not have this information readily available. Also include lead supplied in the form of finished or semi-finished batteries that are purchased for resale from third-party suppliers. An assessment can include on-site audits conducted by second or third parties or an on-site systematic risk assessment against a standard to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors, and must have been conducted at least once every two years using a standard based on internationally recognized principles. The assessments, audits, and standard must be verifiable and must address worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements, and must align with applicable International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). Calculate B1 as the mass of lead and lead oxide used in your final product that came from facilities that are low risk with or without corrective actions divided by the total mass of lead and lead oxide used in your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | OSHA Lead Battery Manufacturing eTool: This web-based training tool from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration provides information on how to mitigate lead exposure at the process level in lead-acid battery manufacturing facilities. https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/battery_manufacturing/ OSHA Standard 1910.1025: This standard provided by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) details regulatory limits for occupational exposure to lead. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1025 | Eurobat Lead Recommendation: European battery manufacturers and Battery Council International developed a joint commitment to reduce blood-lead levels in workers in the lead-based battery sector. https://www.eurobat.org/news-publications/press-releases/100-lead-and-lead-battery-industries-announce-ambitious-new-targets-to-protect-workers Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP) Reference Tools: The Global Social Compliance Program provides a publicly available suite of reference tools that describes existing best practices in social compliance. The reference tools can be used by companies to develop systems and initiatives. http://supply-chain.unglobalcompact.org/site/article/126 International Labour Organization - Core Labor Conventions: This site includes a list of core labor conventions and accompanying documents. http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/introduction-to-international-labour-standards/conventions-and-recommendations/lang--en/index.htm OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate C1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate C2 as the units of your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total units of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | BEST Standard: The Better Environmental Sustainability Targets (BEST) standard for lead-acid batteries provides sustainability benchmarks for manufacturers on issues including energy use, lead particulate emissions, occupational lead exposure, water use, and others. http://www.okinternational.org/lead-batteries/BEST-Standard How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Lead-acid Batteries | Lead-acid Batteries | Worker health and safety – Supplier blood-lead levels | Include in this calculation all purchased lead, including quantities purchased on commodity markets that may not have this information readily available. Also include lead supplied in the form of finished or semi-finished batteries that are purchased for resale from third-party suppliers. To calculate an estimate, divide the mass of lead (and lead oxide) purchased from reporting facilities by the total mass of lead purchased and multiple the result by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Reporting can occur through public disclosure, or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization either directly or indirectly through meeting representative performance benchmarks established by another third party, such as an industry or trade association. | Eurobat Lead Recommendation: European battery manufacturers and Battery Council International developed a joint commitment to reduce blood-lead levels in workers in the lead-based battery sector. https://www.eurobat.org/news-publications/press-releases/100-lead-and-lead-battery-industries-announce-ambitious-new-targets-to-protect-workers OSHA Standard 1910.1025: This standard provided by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) details regulatory limits for occupational exposure to lead. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1025 | Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. | |
| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Consumer education - Product use | N/A | ENERGY STAR Certified Light Bulbs: ENERGY STAR Certified Light Bulbs page provides information to consumers on the benefits of purchasing certified light bulbs and a buying guide to help in making purchasing decisions. https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans/light_bulbs Energy Independence and Security Act messaging guidelines: Messaging guidelines published by the Bonneville Power Administration regarding proper light bulb packaging labels to meet the requirements of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. https://www.bpa.gov/ee/utility/marketing/marketingmaterials/eisaguidelines.pdf Energy efficiency - Residential Lighting: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) provides useful information regarding light bulb choice for consumers, retailers and manufacturers. https://www.bpa.gov/EE/Sectors/Residential/Pages/default.aspx | Multi-stakeholder initiatives: Adapted from World Wildlife Fund multi-stakeholder initiative definition: Multi-stakeholder initiatives can be internal or external and are defined as those that utilize collaboration and consensus-based techniques to create a set of principles, criteria, and indicators for more responsible production, sourcing, and manufacturing practices within or across a given sector or product. This may result in a standard that is used to verify, accredit, or certify a product. MSIs do not always result in certification schemes, but they may develop measurement tools or share best management practices (BMP). | |
| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Electricity consumption - Product use | Calculate on the basis of integral LED lamps manufactured alone. Calculate B1 as the total number of product units sold that had ENERGY STAR® certification, divided by the total number of product units sold in this category, then multiply by 100. If unwilling to report, answer 0%. Include only products certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. In markets not actively participating in the ENERGY STAR program (i.e., the United States and countries listed as ENERGY STAR International Partners), products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria in the appropriate ENERGY STAR standard, even if they are not ENERGY STAR-certified. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® Product Specification for Lamps: Effective September 30, 2014, this specification defines the criteria for qualifying integrally-ballasted LED and CFL lamps for ENERGY STAR certification and replaces prior, separate specifications for the two lamp types. https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans | Product efficiency: The performance of a product with respect to the use of energy, water, or materials. | |
| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Greenhouse gas emissions - Electronic components | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on electronic component suppliers that reported emissions divided by total spend on electronic component suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, longevity, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Light Emitting Diode Lamps | LEDs | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from metal suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all metal suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 European Commission's BAT Reference Document for the Manufacture of Glass: This document describes the best available techniques for integrated pollution prevention and control in the glass manufacturing industry. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ff8a3955-d0d0-46f5-8a15-4b638896cb56 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Product end-of-life | N/A | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Recycled content - Metal | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled metal divided by the total mass of metal used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Responsible metals supply | Calculate B1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. |
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| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Metal Products | Hardware, Fasteners and Other Metal Products | Worker health and safety - Metal supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Metal Products | Jewelry | Conflict minerals | Calculate D1 as the total number of validated smelters, divided by the total number of smelters, then multiply by 100. Include all smelters identified as supplying some portion of the tin, tungsten, tantalum, or gold in your products. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. To be considered conflict-free, smelters must have a valid certification established or confirmed in the previous 12-month period as defined above. Smelters may be validated through any internationally recognized body, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), Responsible Jewellery Council, ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group, or the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). | ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has developed due diligence guidelines for organizations to implement when sourcing minerals from conflict regions, including but not limited to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. These guidelines have become normative in the industry and can be used to demonstrate due diligence under national and regional laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the U.S. and the European Commission draft proposal for supply chain due diligence for conflict minerals. http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/mining.htm Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) chain-of-custody certification: The Responsible Jewellery Council is a standard-setting and certification organization that has developed an ISEAL-accredited chain-of-custody certification program for use by the jewellery industry and manufacturers, which applies to gold and platinum group metals. https://www.responsiblejewellery.com/rjc-certification/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Conflict minerals KPI: Short video tutorial on the Conflict minerals KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017273 The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/good-delivery-list The London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery Lists: According to their website, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) produces "Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver bars; detailing the names of accredited refiners, their listing date and the marking details of their bars." http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-good-delivery-list World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard: As part of their activities to support socially-responsible gold mining, the World Gold Council has developed the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard to provide guidance to companies on responsible mining practices. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/responsible-gold/conflict-free-gold-standard | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ ITA Responsible Tin Supply Group: The International Tin Association (ITA) has convened the Responsible Tin Supply Group (RTS) to enable organizations to source cassiterite (ore from which tin is derived) from responsible supply chain actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries while meeting due diligence guidance developed by the UN and OECD and required by national laws such as the Dodd-Frank Act. https://www.internationaltin.org/rts-group/ Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade: According to the website, "The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a joint initiative among governments, companies, and civil society to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa." http://www.resolv.org/site-ppa/ | Conflict minerals: Conflict minerals are defined per "Section 1502(e)(4) of the [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform] Act as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country." (US Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249b, RIN: 3235-AK84, Conflict Minerals Final Rule) |
| Metal Products | Jewelry | Greenhouse gas emissions - Metal supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass purchased from metal suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all metal suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Metal Products | Jewelry | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report ENERGY STAR - Metalcasting: System Energy Management programs and Energy Benchmarking are examples of how to assess plant performance for energy savings. https://www.energystar.gov/industrial_plants/measure-track-and-benchmark/energy-star-energy-7 European Commission's BAT Reference Document for the Manufacture of Glass: This document describes the best available techniques for integrated pollution prevention and control in the glass manufacturing industry. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ff8a3955-d0d0-46f5-8a15-4b638896cb56 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Metal Products | Jewelry | Product design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, and recyclability. | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Metal Products | Jewelry | Product end-of-life | N/A | Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Metal Products | Jewelry | Recycled content - Metal | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled metal divided by the total mass of metal used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | |||
| Metal Products | Jewelry | Responsible metals supply | Calculate B1 as the spend on metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total spend on product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Verifiable: Having the ability to demonstrate, through a reputable assessor, the truth or accuracy of a claim. |
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| Metal Products | Jewelry | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Metal Products | Jewelry | Worker health and safety - Metal supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your metal supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your metal supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the total spend on ingredient suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total spend on all ingredient suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Material efficiency and design for the environment | Material efficiency may be improved through actions such as lightweighting, improved recyclability, minimal use of different materials, improved energy efficiency, and material substitution. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | ||
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. It is the discretion of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers to develop and maintain a list of priority chemicals based on these criteria. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Global Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment. | THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Priority chemicals - Management | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. It is the discretion of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers to develop and maintain a list of priority chemicals based on these criteria. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Global Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment. For B, informed substitution implies that factors such as cost and performance, technical feasibility, life cycle impacts, economic and social accountability, and potential to result in lasting change have been taken into consideration to ensure that substitutes and the final product are safer based on their health and environmental profiles. For C, goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Public disclosure of goals and progress must have occurred within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Examples of tools and protocols for screening chemicals and assessing alternatives include green chemistry, alternatives analysis, restricted substances lists, and other tools that are listed in the Background Information. | THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Management KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Management KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528286 | BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol: The BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol is a "decision framework for substituting chemicals of concern to human health or the environment with safer alternatives." https://www.bizngo.org/alternatives-assessment/chemical-alternatives-assessment-protocol GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: GreenScreen is a "Chemical Hazard Assessment" method that can be used to identify chemicals of high concern and determine safer alternatives. The tool was developed and is administered by Clean Production Action. A second tool, the GreenScreen List Translator, is a publicly available abbreviated version that screens and classifies chemicals based solely on their presence on authoritative hazard lists. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/ GreenSuite: GreenSuite is an environmental sustainability tool that can be customized to specific users' needs. Environmental issues throughout the supply chain are covered by this web based solution. http://greensuite360.com/index.html Greenlist Process: According to their website, "In 2001, SC Johnson developed the Greenlist Process to classify ingredients in order to minimize the human and environmental impacts of their products." The process is now available for license to other companies and organizations. https://www.scjohnson.com/en/our-purpose/sustainability-report/explaining-the-sc-johnson-greenlist-program-an-excerpt-from-our-2017-sustainability-report NSF/GCI/ANSI 355-2011 - Greener Chemicals and Processes Information: According to this website, "The purpose of the Information Standard is to provide the chemical enterprise with a voluntary and standardized way to define and report environmental and human health hazards associated with a chemical product and its gate-to-gate manufacturing process impacts." http://www.worldcat.org/title/nsfgciansi-355-2011-greener-chemicals-and-processes-information/oclc/772118815 PRIO: PRIO is a web-based tool developed by the Swedish government to facilitate the assessment of environmental and health risks of chemicals. https://www.kemi.se/prioguiden/english/start Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Existing Chemicals Program: According to their website, "EPA's existing chemical programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and characterization, and risk management for chemical substances in commercial use." The current chemicals management program is undergoing review and update, including how the agency identifies and prioritizes priority chemicals for review and assessment under TSCA. https://www.epa.gov/compliance/toxic-substances-control-act-tsca-compliance-monitoring#chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Assessment Tools and Models: According to their website, "The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed several exposure assessment methods, databases, and predictive models to help in evaluating what happens to chemicals when they are used and released to the environment and how workers, the general public, consumers and the aquatic ecosystems may be exposed to chemicals." https://www.epa.gov/ceam/tools-data-exposure-assessment United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Sustainable Futures: According to their website, "The goal of the Sustainable Futures Initiative (SF) is to make new chemicals safer, available faster, and at lower cost. It works by giving chemical developers the same risk-screening models that EPA uses to evaluate new chemicals before they enter the market." https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-futures | Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Priority chemicals - Safety | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. It is the discretion of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers to develop and maintain a list of priority chemicals based on these criteria. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Global Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment. Aggregate exposure applies to primer and paint (or multiple coat systems) during and after application. | THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Safety KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Safety KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528300 | EC 1907/2006 (REACH): An example of a framework that defines margin of safety includes the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use (EC 1907/2006), also known as REACH (the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances). http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/chemicals/reach/index_en.htm Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice Standard method for the testing and evaluation of volatile organic chemical emissions from indoor sources: According to this standard, "This method applies to any product category generally used within the envelope of an enclosed indoor environment. The method is applicable to products that can be tested whole or by representative sample in environmental chambers. This includes, as examples, paints, other architectural coatings and finishes, sealants, adhesives, wallcoverings, floor coverings, acoustical ceilings, wood paneling, wall and ceiling insulation used in public and commercial office buildings, schools, residences and other building types." https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/EHLB/IAQ/Pages/VOC.aspx TSCA Unreasonable Risk: According to the website, "The term "unreasonable risk" is not defined in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The legislative history, however, indicates that unreasonable risk involves the balancing of the probability that harm will occur and the magnitude and severity of that harm against the effect of a proposed regulatory action on the availability to society of the expected benefits of the chemical substance. In the context of the New Chemicals Program, EPA considers unreasonableness of risk both in the context of individual chemical substances and in considering whether to exempt categories of chemical substances." http://www.epa.gov/oppt/newchems/pubs/unrerisk.htm The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Summary of Guidelines for Determining Chronic Toxicity: An example of a framework that defines margin of safety is the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Summary of Guidelines for Determining Chronic Toxicity (16 CFR, Vol. 2: 1500.135). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2012-title16-vol2/pdf/CFR-2012-title16-vol2-sec1500-135.pdf Wall Paint Exposure Assessment Model (WPEM): The WPEM is an exposure assessment tool that was developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. "The Wall Paints Exposure Assessment Model (WPEM) estimates the potential exposure of consumers and workers to the chemicals emitted from wall paint which is applied using a roller or a brush." https://www.epa.gov/tsca-screening-tools/wall-paint-exposure-assessment-model-wpem | Aggregate exposure: Aggregate exposure is the total exposure to a consumer for a single ingredient from multiple product types. Cumulative risk assessment: An analysis of the combined risks to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors. |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Product design - Volatile organic compounds | This question includes wall paint, trim paint, and primers for interior use only. | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Definition of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): This website provides the technical definition of volatile organic compounds as established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/technical-overview-volatile-organic-compounds | Volatile organic compounds: Volatile organic compounds are defined as those which participate in atmospheric photochemical reactions. Specific exclusions, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates, ammonium carbonate, and others, are provided by federal and state regulations United States 40 CFR 51.100, United States 40 CFR 59.203, and Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, Division 3, Chapter 1, Subchapter 8.5, Article 2, Consumer Products, Sections 94507-94517. | |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Product takeback - Consumer education | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | PaintCare: According to their website, "PaintCare currently operates paint stewardship programs on behalf of paint manufacturers in states with paint stewardship laws. PaintCare runs programs in California, Connecticut, and Oregon. We are planning programs for Rhode Island, Minnesota, Vermont and Maine. PaintCare makes paint recycling more convenient. Our main effort is to set up more places for people to take unwanted, leftover paint - usually at retail stores that also sell paint, because they have regular business hours and convenient locations." https://www.paintcare.org/ | ||
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Product takeback program - Participation | N/A | PaintCare: According to their website, "PaintCare currently operates paint stewardship programs on behalf of paint manufacturers in states with paint stewardship laws. PaintCare runs programs in California, Connecticut, and Oregon. We are planning programs for Rhode Island, Minnesota, Vermont and Maine. PaintCare makes paint recycling more convenient. Our main effort is to set up more places for people to take unwanted, leftover paint - usually at retail stores that also sell paint, because they have regular business hours and convenient locations." https://www.paintcare.org/ | ||
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Wastewater discharge | N/A | The World Bank - Wastewater Treatment: This website provides technical and financial information about wastewater sanitation, treatment, and disposal. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/water Water and Chemical Use in the Textile Dyeing and Finishing Industry: WRAP’s Water and Chemical use in textile dyeing and finishing document contains best practices for water and chemical use reduction and optimization. http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/GG062.pdf | ||
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the mass of your final product for which you were able to obtain data, divided by the total mass of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Paint | Paints, Inks and Finishes | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your ingredient supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your ingredient supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your ingredient supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your ingredient supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your ingredient supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your ingredient supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your ingredient supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your ingredient supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your ingredient supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your ingredient supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Greenhouse gas emissions - Plastics supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass of plastic purchased from plastic suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all plastic suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Priority chemicals - Management | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment. For C, informed substitution implies that factors such as cost and performance, technical feasibility, life cycle impacts, economic and social accountability, and potential to result in lasting change have been taken into consideration to ensure that substitutes and the final product are safer based on their health and environmental profiles. For D, goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Public disclosure of goals and progress must have occurred within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Examples of tools and protocols for screening chemicals and assessing alternatives include green chemistry, alternatives analysis, restricted substances lists, and other tools that are listed in the Background Information. | GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: GreenScreen is a "Chemical Hazard Assessment" method that can be used to identify chemicals of high concern and determine safer alternatives. The tool was developed and is administered by Clean Production Action. A second tool, the GreenScreen List Translator, is a publicly available abbreviated version that screens and classifies chemicals based solely on their presence on authoritative hazard lists. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/ GreenSuite: GreenSuite is an environmental sustainability tool that can be customized to specific users' needs. Environmental issues throughout the supply chain are covered by this web based solution. http://greensuite360.com/index.html Greenlist Process: According to their website, "In 2001, SC Johnson developed the Greenlist Process to classify ingredients in order to minimize the human and environmental impacts of their products." The process is now available for license to other companies and organizations. https://www.scjohnson.com/en/our-purpose/sustainability-report/explaining-the-sc-johnson-greenlist-program-an-excerpt-from-our-2017-sustainability-report Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Management KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Management KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528286 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Assessment Tools and Models: According to their website, "The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed several exposure assessment methods, databases, and predictive models to help in evaluating what happens to chemicals when they are used and released to the environment and how workers, the general public, consumers and the aquatic ecosystems may be exposed to chemicals." https://www.epa.gov/ceam/tools-data-exposure-assessment United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Sustainable Futures: According to their website, "The goal of the Sustainable Futures Initiative (SF) is to make new chemicals safer, available faster, and at lower cost. It works by giving chemical developers the same risk-screening models that EPA uses to evaluate new chemicals before they enter the market." https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-futures | BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol: The BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol is a "decision framework for substituting chemicals of concern to human health or the environment with safer alternatives." https://www.bizngo.org/alternatives-assessment/chemical-alternatives-assessment-protocol Greenlist Process: According to their website, "In 2001, SC Johnson developed the Greenlist Process to classify ingredients in order to minimize the human and environmental impacts of their products." The process is now available for license to other companies and organizations. https://www.scjohnson.com/en/our-purpose/sustainability-report/explaining-the-sc-johnson-greenlist-program-an-excerpt-from-our-2017-sustainability-report Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (LSCP): A Compendium of Methods and Tools for Chemical Hazard Assessment: This report was commissioned by The Sustainability Consortium in a joint effort with The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. This compendium is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to provide an overview of the methods and tools being used by governments, the for-profit private sector, and nonprofit organizations to more effectively screen and prioritize chemical hazards and identify safer alternatives. http://www.sustainableproduction.org/publ.alternatives.php The Guide to Safer Chemicals: The Guide to Safer Chemicals provides guidance on how to design and implement a chemicals management program based on the Principles for Safer Chemicals. The Principles and Guide were developed by BizNGO, a collaboration of business and NGO leaders to create and adopt "safer chemicals and sustainable materials." https://www.bizngo.org/safer-chemicals/guide-to-safer-chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Existing Chemicals Program: According to their website, "EPA's existing chemical programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and characterization, and risk management for chemical substances in commercial use." The current chemicals management program is undergoing review and update, including how the agency identifies and prioritizes priority chemicals for review and assessment under TSCA. https://www.epa.gov/compliance/toxic-substances-control-act-tsca-compliance-monitoring#chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™: Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™ provides a standard of performance for manufacturers regarding product sustainability and material safety. Individual product assessments are performed by independent and trained third parties and certifications are made by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Product disposal - Recycling programs | The scope of this question excludes packaging materials. Answer “not applicable” if the only plastic products you produce are intended to contain landfilled materials (e.g., bin bags, bin liners, garbage bags, trash bags, etc.). | Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™: Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™ provides a standard of performance for manufacturers regarding product sustainability and material safety. Individual product assessments are performed by independent and trained third parties and certifications are made by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers: The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) works to increase public awareness of plastics recycling, reclamation, and processing industry, and to create more opportunities to recycle plastics. https://plasticsrecycling.org/ | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Recycled content | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled plastic divided by the total mass of plastic used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers: The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) works to increase public awareness of plastics recycling, reclamation, and processing industry, and to create more opportunities to recycle plastics. https://plasticsrecycling.org/ United States Federal Trade Commission Green Guides: According to their website, "These guides set forth the Federal Trade Commission's current views about environmental claims. The guides help marketers avoid making environmental marketing claims that are unfair or deceptive under Section 5 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45." https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advertising/green-guides | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) | |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Plastic Products | Manual Toothbrushes and Floss | Worker health and safety - Plastics supply | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Greenhouse gas emissions - Plastics supply | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass of plastic purchased from plastic suppliers that reported emissions divided by total mass purchased from all plastic suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from each product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the revenue from final product produced. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using revenue data specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the revenue from final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total revenue from final products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | E-SMARRT - Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology Program: According to their website, "Energy-Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT) is a balanced portfolio of tasks to address energy-saving opportunities in the metal casting industry, including Improvements in Melting Efficiency; Innovative Casting Processes for Yield Improvement/ Revert Reduction; Instrumentation and Control Improvement; and Material Properties for Casting or Tooling Design Improvement. This portfolio define process approaches designed to significantly reduce metal casting energy consumption while improving the overall capabilities." https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1150837-energy-saving-melting-revert-reduction-technology-smarrt-final-summary-report Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Priority chemicals - Management | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment. For C, informed substitution implies that factors such as cost and performance, technical feasibility, life cycle impacts, economic and social accountability, and potential to result in lasting change have been taken into consideration to ensure that substitutes and the final product are safer based on their health and environmental profiles. For D, goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Public disclosure of goals and progress must have occurred within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Examples of tools and protocols for screening chemicals and assessing alternatives include green chemistry, alternatives analysis, restricted substances lists, and other tools that are listed in the Background Information. | GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: GreenScreen is a "Chemical Hazard Assessment" method that can be used to identify chemicals of high concern and determine safer alternatives. The tool was developed and is administered by Clean Production Action. A second tool, the GreenScreen List Translator, is a publicly available abbreviated version that screens and classifies chemicals based solely on their presence on authoritative hazard lists. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/ GreenSuite: GreenSuite is an environmental sustainability tool that can be customized to specific users' needs. Environmental issues throughout the supply chain are covered by this web based solution. http://greensuite360.com/index.html Greenlist Process: According to their website, "In 2001, SC Johnson developed the Greenlist Process to classify ingredients in order to minimize the human and environmental impacts of their products." The process is now available for license to other companies and organizations. https://www.scjohnson.com/en/our-purpose/sustainability-report/explaining-the-sc-johnson-greenlist-program-an-excerpt-from-our-2017-sustainability-report Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Management KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Management KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528286 The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): GHS provides specific human and environmental health criteria along with physical hazard criteria for chemicals in industry. These criteria are used for hazard communication and labeling of chemicals. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the Global Harmonized System. https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/global.html United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Assessment Tools and Models: According to their website, "The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed several exposure assessment methods, databases, and predictive models to help in evaluating what happens to chemicals when they are used and released to the environment and how workers, the general public, consumers and the aquatic ecosystems may be exposed to chemicals." https://www.epa.gov/ceam/tools-data-exposure-assessment United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Sustainable Futures: According to their website, "The goal of the Sustainable Futures Initiative (SF) is to make new chemicals safer, available faster, and at lower cost. It works by giving chemical developers the same risk-screening models that EPA uses to evaluate new chemicals before they enter the market." https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-futures | BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol: The BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol is a "decision framework for substituting chemicals of concern to human health or the environment with safer alternatives." https://www.bizngo.org/alternatives-assessment/chemical-alternatives-assessment-protocol Greenlist Process: According to their website, "In 2001, SC Johnson developed the Greenlist Process to classify ingredients in order to minimize the human and environmental impacts of their products." The process is now available for license to other companies and organizations. https://www.scjohnson.com/en/our-purpose/sustainability-report/explaining-the-sc-johnson-greenlist-program-an-excerpt-from-our-2017-sustainability-report Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (LSCP): A Compendium of Methods and Tools for Chemical Hazard Assessment: This report was commissioned by The Sustainability Consortium in a joint effort with The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. This compendium is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to provide an overview of the methods and tools being used by governments, the for-profit private sector, and nonprofit organizations to more effectively screen and prioritize chemical hazards and identify safer alternatives. http://www.sustainableproduction.org/publ.alternatives.php The Guide to Safer Chemicals: The Guide to Safer Chemicals provides guidance on how to design and implement a chemicals management program based on the Principles for Safer Chemicals. The Principles and Guide were developed by BizNGO, a collaboration of business and NGO leaders to create and adopt "safer chemicals and sustainable materials." https://www.bizngo.org/safer-chemicals/guide-to-safer-chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Existing Chemicals Program: According to their website, "EPA's existing chemical programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and characterization, and risk management for chemical substances in commercial use." The current chemicals management program is undergoing review and update, including how the agency identifies and prioritizes priority chemicals for review and assessment under TSCA. https://www.epa.gov/compliance/toxic-substances-control-act-tsca-compliance-monitoring#chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). 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| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™: Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™ provides a standard of performance for manufacturers regarding product sustainability and material safety. Individual product assessments are performed by independent and trained third parties and certifications are made by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. Resource conservation: Practices that reduce the consumption and waste of energy and natural resources. |
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| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Product disposal - Recycling programs | The scope of this question excludes packaging materials. Answer “not applicable” if the only plastic products you produce are intended to contain landfilled materials (e.g., bin bags, bin liners, garbage bags, trash bags, etc.). | Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™: Cradle to Cradle Product Certification™ provides a standard of performance for manufacturers regarding product sustainability and material safety. Individual product assessments are performed by independent and trained third parties and certifications are made by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers: The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) works to increase public awareness of plastics recycling, reclamation, and processing industry, and to create more opportunities to recycle plastics. https://plasticsrecycling.org/ | End-of-life: A product life cycle phase that begins at the end of a product’s useful life, including reuse and refurbishment cycles. Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Recycled content | Do not include packaging in this calculation. Calculate B1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled plastic divided by the total mass of plastic used across all product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. ’In the past year’ means perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the completion date of this question. | The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers: The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) works to increase public awareness of plastics recycling, reclamation, and processing industry, and to create more opportunities to recycle plastics. https://plasticsrecycling.org/ United States Federal Trade Commission Green Guides: According to their website, "These guides set forth the Federal Trade Commission's current views about environmental claims. The guides help marketers avoid making environmental marketing claims that are unfair or deceptive under Section 5 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45." https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advertising/green-guides | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) | |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Safe transportation of plastic resin | N/A | THESIS Help Center Video: Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI: Short video tutorial on the Safe Transportation of Plastic Resin KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750731 | Marine Litter Solutions: Marine Litter Solutions is a plastics-industry initiative to protect seas and oceans with efforts to reduce waste, increase recycling and litter prevention programs, and foster regional and global partnerships. https://www.marinelittersolutions.com/ Operation Clean Sweep (OCS): According to their website, "The Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an international program designed to prevent resin pellet loss and help keep pellets out of the marine environment. The program and manual contain guidelines to help plastics industry operations managers reduce the loss of pellets to the environment." https://www.opcleansweep.org/Manual/ | |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the revenue from your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total revenue of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Plastic Products | Plastic Bags, Films and Other Plastic Products | Worker health and safety - Plastics supply | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your plastics supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your plastics supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Battery stewardship | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for D1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | Call2Recycle: Call2Recycle® is a product stewardship program providing no-cost consumer battery recycling solutions across the U.S. and Canada. The organization works with their members and collection partners to provide easy, convenient, and safe battery collection. https://www.call2recycle.org/ THESIS Help Center Video: Battery Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Battery Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750765 | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Energy efficiency - Use phase | This question addresses only products that are certifiable under an in-force ENERGY STAR® product specification or that contain an electric motor covered by the IEC 60034-30 standard. Calculate C1 as the total number of product units sold that qualified for ENERGY STAR certification or those that contained an IE4 class electric motor divided by the total number of product units sold, then multiply by 100. Products must be certified to the version of the ENERGY STAR specification or IEC 60034-30 standard that was in force when the product was manufactured. Products may be counted toward this percentage if they meet the criteria and are tested according to the methodology provided in the appropriate specification or standard, even if they are not certified as such. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | ENERGY STAR® International Partners: The EPA enters into agreements with foreign governments to use and/or recognize the ENERGY STAR standards and mark to help unify voluntary energy-efficiency initiatives globally. https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/international_partners ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products: According to their website, "The ENERGY STAR label was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy and make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort." Standards are established by ENERGY STAR through a multi-stakeholder process and administered under the US EPA. https://www.energystar.gov/products/spec | IEC 60034-30: This international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission periodically sets forth the minimum performance requirements needed to specify a single-speed electric motor as belonging to one of several energy efficiency classes. https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/136&preview=1 | |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Greenhouse gas emissions - Supply chain | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the mass of materials, ingredients, and components from suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total mass of all materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any materials, ingredients, and components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in your products, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total mass of produced product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total mass of produced product. Calculate B2 as the mass of produced products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total mass of produced products, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Maintenance and refurbishment | This question addresses only complex durable goods, defined here as those that contain two or more discrete components or subassemblies. Only the components and subassemblies of the product itself, and not its packaging materials, service manual, or other similar materials are covered. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of components or subassemblies that are readily available for repair, refurbishment, or replacement by the total mass of the product, then multiplying by 100. Treat components or subassemblies about which this information is unknown as not readily available. “Readily available” means that a third-party or consumer equipped with commercially available tools can remove or service the component or subassembly or replace it with a commercially available part. Examples of components and subassemblies include devices, such as motors, filters, and circuit boards, and structural components, such as doors, brackets, and cushions. These are often enumerated on a bill of materials. Components or subassemblies that are regulated or require certification for proper maintenance or management, such as refrigerant recovery, count as part of "readily available" components, even though the maintenance activities should be performed only by qualified parties. | THESIS Help Center Video: Maintenance and refurbishment KPI: Short video tutorial on the Maintenance and refurbishment KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750647 | Component: A component is an individual part used together with other parts to form a final product. Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Subassembly: A subassembly is an assembled unit used together with other units to form a final product. |
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| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 14021: ISO 14021 (Environmental labels and declarations -- Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/66652.html ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Priority chemicals - Disclosure | For this question, a priority chemical is one that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. Relevant criteria in the US EPA Safer Choice Program and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, listed below, may be used to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment.to health or the environment from multiple agents or stressors” (EPA, 2003). | Safer Choice (EPA): In order to identify scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment, organizations should reference relevant criteria in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice THESIS Help Center Video: Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI: Short video tutorial on the Priority Chemicals - Disclosure KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750684 | Priority chemical: A chemical that meets the criteria for classification as a carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxicant, or is persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemical for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). Priority chemicals are identified on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Product Design | This question does not address packaging materials. Product design strategies may include design for lightweighting, durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design ISO 14040: ISO 14040 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Principles and Framework" document for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/37456.html ISO 14044: ISO 14044 is the International Organization for Standardization's "Requirements and Guidelines" standard for conducting life cycle assessments. https://www.iso.org/standard/38498.html UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 | ||
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Product stewardship | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program within the organization. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations when reported in different product category questionnaires. If products under the same category are collected in separate programs, average the recycling performance of the two programs and report that value in C1. Calculate C1 as the mass of products returned through the program(s) for recycling divided by the total mass of products sold, then multiply by 100. If this number exceeds 100, report it as 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Data for both the unit volume returned and unit volume sold should come from the same year, even though units may be returned in a different year than they were sold. Examples of stewardship programs include extended producer responsibility programs and product takeback programs. Such programs should ensure that materials are recycled or disposed of in an environmentally sensitive manner. | THESIS Help Center Video: Product Stewardship KPI: Short video tutorial on the Product Stewardship KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/533750712 | Durable good: A durable good is a product whose expected lifespan is three years or more. Product stewardship: The set of activities by which those who participate in a product’s life cycle share responsibility for its total life cycle impacts. Takeback program: A collection method whereby consumers return specific products or classes of products at the end of their useful lives for potential reuse and refurbishment, followed by material recovery and appropriate disposal. |
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| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Recycled content | This question covers materials, such as metals, plastics, and wood, as well as ingredients, such as motor oil and refrigerants. Calculate B1 by dividing the mass of post-consumer recycled materials or ingredients in the final product by the total mass of the final product, then multiply by 100. If multiple product configurations are sold, perform this calculation for each configuration, then calculate B1 and the sales-weighted average across all configurations. Treat refurbished goods as 100% post-consumer recycled material. Some materials and ingredients will have no available recycling stream, but the masses of these should still be included in the final product's mass. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Prospector: This searchable database from UL allows product designers to search for materials and ingredients that meet a set of user-defined specifications, including those that contain some amount of recycled content. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na THESIS Help Center Video: Recycled Content KPI: Short video tutorial on the Recycled Content KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017179 | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Responsible metals supply | Calculate B1 as the mass of metal suppliers who require site-level assessments from all of their suppliers divided by the total mass of product units manufactured in this product category, then multiply by 100. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. An assessment should include an on-site audit of environmental and social sustainability performance by a second or third party, or a systematic risk assessment against a standard or set of principles to determine risk based on conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Examples of standards or sets of principles include those developed by the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). | Aluminum Stewardship Initiative: The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative has created standards to assess responsible aluminum production, and supports an audit-based certification program. https://aluminium-stewardship.org/ Better Sourcing Program: The Better Sourcing Program (BSP) provides a technology-based communications solution to allow global organizations to source artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) ores through upstream due diligence, auditing and risk management. https://www.rcsglobal.com/bettersourcing/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: This website outlines a multi-stakeholder initiative building a sustainability certification system for mining operations. Participation is open to manufacturers. https://responsiblemining.net/ International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) requires organizations to commit to 10 principles related to sustainble and ethical business practices. http://www.icmm.com/jn/about-us/member-commitments/icmm-10-principles International Council on Mining & Metals: The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a membership organization that serves the mining and metals industry by offering a sustainable development framework and an annual assessment of member progress towards addressing social and environmental sustainability issues in mining. http://www.icmm.com/ Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI): An initiative under the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Minerals & Chemicals (CCCMC), in collaboration with OECD, to bring importers and exporters of cobalt together with supply chain stakeholders to address social and environmental risks in the cobalt supply chain. http://en.cccmc.org.cn/news/58372.htm Responsible Mica Initiative: A multi-stakeholder focused on responsible sourcing of mica in Indiay through the development and deployment of fair, responsible and sustainable practices, local community empowerment, and building a legal and liveable environment in local communities. https://responsible-mica-initiative.com/ Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): Formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative, the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) is a joint effort between the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and GeSI to establish supply chain transparency tools, resources and training to assist organizations in responsibly sourcing conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Of note is their Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which enables auditing and assessment of smelters for responsible ore sourcing and provides a centralized database for tracking smelter performance. http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/ Responsible Steel: A multi-stakeholder initative bringing together organizations across the steel supply chain to develop a standard for responsible steel supply and related certifications. https://www.responsiblesteel.org/ | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. |
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| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies Clean Shipping Index: According to their website, "Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to select clean ships and quality ship operators" to minimize environmental footprint and identify areas for environmental improvement. https://www.cleanshippingindex.com/ Clear Cargo: The Clean Cargo Working group is a business initiative created by BSR to collaboratively address the environmental impacts of shipping and transportation. https://www.clean-cargo.org/data-methods EN 16258: The European Committee for Standardization's EN 16258 standard deals with the methodology for calculation and reporting of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport services. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030241098 Ecotransit: EcotransIT World calculates and quantifies environmental impacts of different carriers across the world in terms of direct energy usage and emissions during the operation of vehicles during the transport of products. http://www.ecotransit.org/ GHG Protocol Calculation Tools - Semiconductors: The GHG Protocol calculation tool for the semiconductor industry provides guidance on how to assess and account for PFC emissions during semiconductor wafer production and processing. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools IATA CO2 Emissions Measurement Methodology: This document includes a methodology for measuring CO2 emissions from air cargo. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/cargo/sustainability/carbon-footprint/ THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the mass of your final product for which you were able to obtain data divided by the total mass of your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Riding Mowers and Garden Tractors | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your materials, ingredients, and components that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your materials, ingredients, and components, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | IS0 26000 Social Responsibility: ISO 2600 is not a certification tool, but it offers guidance about social responsibility to all sorts of organizations regardless of their activity, size or location. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Risk assessment: A systematic process to evaluate potential risks within an operation, system, or supply chain. It can include an on-site audit by a second party or third party or a country risk classification analysis that judges the site risk due to prevailing conditions, controls, or other mitigating factors. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Battery stewardship programs | Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Using this period, subtract the number of points on the first day from the number on the last day, divide the result by the number on the first day, then multiply by 100. Mail-back programs count only as a single point for consumers to return used batteries. If there has been an overall decrease in the number of points where consumers can recycle used batteries, answer zero for D1. A battery stewardship program should: inform consumers of the battery recycling program; ensure safe storage; prevent short-circuiting of the batteries during transportation; provide special containers for collecting used batteries; and consider retail collection points. | The Big Green Box: According to their website, "The Big Green Box is an international program that offers to companies, consumers, municipalities and other generators a low cost and easy way to provide electronics and battery recycling for themselves as well as their customers." https://biggreenbox.com/index.php | ||
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Energy efficiency - Battery chargers | Calculate B1 as the total number of units that meet the criteria for this question, divided by the total number of units sold in this category, then multiply by 100. Include all units that were shipped with power management or energy efficiency attributes enabled, regardless of whether required by law. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Energy efficiency attributes: Product design attributes such as low power motors or more efficient air circulation that increase the energy efficiency of a product above market average. Power management features: Product design features that enable users to manage product energy use, such as variable heat or speed settings, or that automatically control energy use, such as auto-off after a set time. |
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| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Greenhouse gas emissions - Battery cell suppliers | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the procurement spend on battery cell suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total procurement spend on all battery cell suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Component suppliers means the group of suppliers that account for 80% of your total spend on components purchased for products in this category. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Greenhouse gas emissions - Battery charger suppliers | Scope 1 and 2 emissions are defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. Calculate B1 as the procurement spend on battery charger suppliers that reported emissions, divided by total procurement spend from all battery charger suppliers, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Component suppliers means the group of suppliers that account for 80% of your total spend on components purchased for products in this category. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If suppliers completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, refer to their answers to determine if they report emissions. | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - GHG Supply Chain KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Greenhouse Gases Supply Chain KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/thesis-kpi-calculation-tool-ghg-supply-chain-kpis/ | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - Manufacturing | Included in the scope of this question are fuels combusted and electricity used in facilities that perform final manufacturing activities, including product assembly and the manufacture of any components purchased directly by your organization for inclusion in products in this category not related to materials in the battery cells or battery chargers, as well as trace gases released during manufacture. This may include some or all of your organization's corporate scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as scope 1 and 2 emissions from any final manufacturing facilities not within your organization's financial or operational control (e.g., contract manufacturers). Excluded from the scope of this question are GHG allowances, offsets, and credits. You may calculate B1 using product-specific data or estimate intensity via facility data that is not product specific. If using product-specific data, calculate B1 as the average of each product's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total spend required to produce the product. If using facility data, calculate B1 as the average of each final manufacturing facility's greenhouse gas emissions intensity, weighted by the total spend required to produce the product. If the manufacturing facilities produce more than one category of product, only weight using the total spend required to produce the product specific to the product category in question. Calculate B2 as the total spend on final products for which you are able to obtain data, divided by total spend on final products produced, then multiply by 100. For each final manufacturing facility, follow the instructions in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard to calculate scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions generated from electricity purchased or produced, fuels combusted, and trace gases released, and then add them together. Worksheets are available on the GHG Protocol website to facilitate these calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. The data required for the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire combined with production data can be used to calculate your response. The data required for "Disclosure 302-1 Energy consumption within the organization" in GRI 302: Energy or "Disclosure 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions" and "Disclosure 305-2 Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions" in GRI 305: Emissions can also be used to calculate your response. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: The GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide a standard set of metrics for companies to report on material environmental, social, and economic impacts, actions, and outcomes. https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/ Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools THESIS Calculation Tool - GHG emissions intensity KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/calculation-tool-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-intensity-manufacturing/ THESIS Help Center Video: GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. This is a step-by-step video on how to use the GHG emissions intensity Calculation Tool. https://vimeo.com/863813590 | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard: The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol provides guidance and is a useful resource published by the World Resources Institute with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a guide for monitoring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard | Greenhouse gas: Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere, e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Hazardous substances - Alternatives assessment | Hazardous substances are defined as chemicals that meet the criteria for classification as carcinogens, mutagens, reproductive toxicants, or are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or any chemicals for which there is "scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern" (REACH Title VII, Chapter 1, Article 57). | BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol: The BizNGO Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol is a "decision framework for substituting chemicals of concern to human health or the environment with safer alternatives." https://www.bizngo.org/alternatives-assessment/chemical-alternatives-assessment-protocol GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: GreenScreen is a "Chemical Hazard Assessment" method that can be used to identify chemicals of high concern and determine safer alternatives. The tool was developed and is administered by Clean Production Action. A second tool, the GreenScreen List Translator, is a publicly available abbreviated version that screens and classifies chemicals based solely on their presence on authoritative hazard lists. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/ NSF/GCI/ANSI 355-2011 - Greener Chemicals and Processes Information: According to this website, "The purpose of the Information Standard is to provide the chemical enterprise with a voluntary and standardized way to define and report environmental and human health hazards associated with a chemical product and its gate-to-gate manufacturing process impacts." http://www.worldcat.org/title/nsfgciansi-355-2011-greener-chemicals-and-processes-information/oclc/772118815 The Guide to Safer Chemicals: The Guide to Safer Chemicals provides guidance on how to design and implement a chemicals management program based on the Principles for Safer Chemicals. The Principles and Guide were developed by BizNGO, a collaboration of business and NGO leaders to create and adopt "safer chemicals and sustainable materials." https://www.bizngo.org/safer-chemicals/guide-to-safer-chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Existing Chemicals Program: According to their website, "EPA's existing chemical programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and characterization, and risk management for chemical substances in commercial use." The current chemicals management program is undergoing review and update, including how the agency identifies and prioritizes priority chemicals for review and assessment under TSCA. https://www.epa.gov/compliance/toxic-substances-control-act-tsca-compliance-monitoring#chemicals United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Assessment Tools and Models: According to their website, "The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed several exposure assessment methods, databases, and predictive models to help in evaluating what happens to chemicals when they are used and released to the environment and how workers, the general public, consumers and the aquatic ecosystems may be exposed to chemicals." https://www.epa.gov/ceam/tools-data-exposure-assessment United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Sustainable Futures: According to their website, "The goal of the Sustainable Futures Initiative (SF) is to make new chemicals safer, available faster, and at lower cost. It works by giving chemical developers the same risk-screening models that EPA uses to evaluate new chemicals before they enter the market." https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-futures | Informed substitution: Informed substitution implies that factors such as cost and performance, technical feasibility, life cycle impacts, economic and social accountability, and potential to result in lasting change have been taken into consideration to ensure that substitutes and the final product are safer based on their health and environmental profiles (Adapted from United States Environmental Protection Agency Design for Environment Program Alternative Assessment information). Public disclosure: Manufacturer-based acts of making information available and readily accessible to the public through one or more forms of media (e.g., online, print, telephone). Print media includes product labels and also includes, but is not limited to, books, magazines, newspapers, and readily accessible journal articles. Online disclosure includes, but is not limited to, publicly accessible websites (desktop or mobile) as well as making information electronically available through reporting platforms or mobile apps. |
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| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Packaging Raw Material Sourcing | The scope of this question is the product category’s sales packaging, which is defined as packaging that leaves a store with the consumer. Include the transportation-related packaging for product that is shipped directly to an end consumer. Calculate C1 as the mass of post-consumer recycled material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. This excludes pre-consumer recycled materials. Calculate C2 as the mass of sustainably-sourced renewable virgin material in the sales packaging of your final products, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. To be included in C2, the material must be third-party verified (e.g. for paper-based packaging FSC, SFI, PEFC would be examples of certifications for verification). If data on packaging materials specific to these final products is not available, you may use more aggregated internal data to calculate C1 and C2 (e.g., company-level data for sales packaging of similar products). The sum of C1 and C2 cannot be greater than 100%. Please refer to THESIS KPI set for Packaging for more detailed packaging indicators. | Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: According to this document's introduction, "The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. This report provide a standardized set of response approaches to the range of business questions that may arise concerning packaging sustainability." https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability: The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides metrics and a framework for businesses on the relative sustainability of packaging. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf ISO 18604: ISO 18604 (Packaging and the environment -- Material recycling) provides measurement standards for determining how recyclable a particular product is. https://www.iso.org/standard/55872.html THESIS Help Center Video: Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Packaging Raw Material Sourcing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/531017161 THESIS KPI Calculation Tool - Packaging KPIs: TSC has created THESIS KPI Calculation Tools to help suppliers in answering specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for THESIS. Each tool includes step by step instructions on how to use the tool to generate your KPI response. Download this tool to use for Packaging KPIs. https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/download/packaging-calculation-tool-2023/ | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity FTC Green Guide's Recyclability Definition: In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission defines when a product or packaging can be claimed recyclable. Please refer these guidelines when determining recyclability. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-issues-revised-green-guides/greenguides.pdf Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ | Post-consumer recycled material: "Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end‐users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Pre-consumer recycled material: “Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” (ISO 14021:2016 - Environmental labels and declarations — Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)) Renewable material: “Material that is composed of biomass from a living source and that can be continually replenished. To be defined as renewable, virgin materials shall come from sources which are replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.” (FTC Green Guides:2012) Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Sustainably-sourced material: Material for which it can be demonstrated through second- or third-party verification that the virgin raw material has been harvested or produced legally and in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, workers, and communities. Materials such as paper can be included in this definition if the source of the packaging content comes from sustainably-managed forests with no deforestation. |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Product design | This question does not address packaging, only the battery itself. Product design strategies may include design for durability, disassembly, reuse, recycled content, recyclability, and compostability. | Autodesk - Design for Sustainability: Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop provides resources, tools and online learning opportunities to teach the principles of sustainable design. https://academy.autodesk.com/sustainable-design Cradle-to-Cradle Product Certification: According to their website, "Cradle-to-Cradle is a multi-attribute product certification with continuous improvement methodology that provides a path to manufacturing healthy and sustainable products" in the following areas: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. http://www.c2ccertified.org/product_certification UN Environment Design for Sustainability: Materials Efficiency: One example of a tool and protocol for material efficiency is included in the Design for Sustainability report published by UN Environment. https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7961 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice - Alternatives Assessments: The EPA's Safer Choice [formerly Design for the Environment (DfE)] partnership program provides guidance for informed decision-making regarding the hazards posed by different materials used in consumer goods. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice | ||
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Product takeback program - Battery chargers | This question addresses takeback programs that an organization may fund, contract, or physically operate, in whole or in part, to enable consumers to return products for responsible end-of-life management. Include only products and materials for which an organization has the ability to decide or influence the handling, treatment, and disposal of returned devices, components, and materials. These calculations should be made at the program level rather than category level. The same percentage can be reported across multiple product categories if the products are collected and managed in the same program. Separate programs require separate percentage calculations. For example, if two separate programs are run to collect hardware and printer ink cartridges, percentages for each program should be calculated separately and reported in the appropriate product category. Calculate B1, B2, B3, and B4 as the weight of products or materials recovered from products in each category, divided by the weight of total products recovered globally through both voluntary and mandatory programs, then multiply by 100. The sum of B1, B2, B3, and B4 must be less than or equal to 100%. The weight for any given returned device can only be credited once. For example, a device whose weight is included in component reuse for a hard drive that was salvaged cannot also be included under the material recovery calculation, even if the rest of the materials from the device are sent for material recovery. Material that is found or suspected to end in landfill or incineration through downstream auditing or the lack of a viable secondary market cannot be included in the material recovery percentage. Components reused or refurbished means the percent of total volume representing parts that return to the market. Examples would be hard drives, motherboards, salvaged chips or other components removed for the secondary market. Closed-loop system means that once material or components are recovered, they are returned to the materials supply chain for manufacturing new devices or products of the same value or greater value than the device that was recycled. For example, a closed loop system would be when printer ink cartridges are recycled and the recovered plastic is then used in new printer ink cartridges. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | R2 Certified Recyclers: According to the R2:2013 Standard, "certifying to this Standard through an accredited third-party Certification Body, electronics recyclers can help prospective purchasers of their services (customers) make informed decisions and have increased confidence that used and end -of-life electronic equipment are managed in an environmentally responsible manner, protective of the health and safety of workers and the public, and that all data on all media devices is secure until destroyed." https://sustainableelectronics.org/r2-standard e-Stewards: According to the e-Stewards Certification website, "The e-Stewards Certification Program provides a high level of confidence that a recycler consistently conforms to the e-Stewards Standard." http://www.e-stewards.org/certification-overview/ | ||
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Sustainable Packaging Design and Production | Calculate C1 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that was recyclable, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C2 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for material and process efficiency during packaging manufacturing, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Calculate C3 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated progress on goals for weight or volume optimization during packaging design, divided by the total mass of sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Goals must be quantitative and time-bound and progress must be reported publicly. Public reporting may include voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability reporting programs, or reporting as part of regulatory compliance. Calculate C4 as the mass of sales packaging used for your final products that has demonstrated quantified environmental impact reductions, divided by the total mass sales packaging used for your final products, then multiply by 100. Include sales packaging with demonstrated impact reductions since the inception of the product or since purchase of the brand, if post-inception. Methods for demonstrating quantified environmental impact reduction include, but are not limited to, life cycle impact assessment, or assessment against ISO Standard 18602 (Packaging and the environment - Optimization of the packaging system), or EN 13428 (Packaging: Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition - Prevention by source reduction). Calculate C5 as the number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled with How2Recycle divided by the total number of units sold in the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Calculate C6 as the number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging labeled according to an established third-party standard divided by the total number of units sold in regions outside the US and Canada that had sales packaging, then multiply by 100. Third party standards include those listed in the Certifications, Standards & Tools section of this KPI. Only include regions outside the US and Canada that are covered by the referenced third-party standards in your calculations. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. | Australasian Recycling Label (ARL): Used in Australia and New Zealand, the ARL details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/arl/ EN 13428: Prevention by packaging source reduction: European standard 13428:2004 outlines a method for evaluating if packaging material weight and/or volume have been sufficiently minimized while also taking into consideration other packaging performance parameters. The standard also includes recommended methodology for identifying heavy metals and dangerous substances in packaging formats. http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/packaging/index_en.htm EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: Use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator EPA Energy Benefits Calculator: You can use the EPA Energy Benefits Calculator to help quantify environmental impact reductions for packaging design choices. https://www.epa.gov/lmop/landfill-gas-energy-benefits-calculator Ecoembes Recycling Symbols: Used in Spain, the Ecoembes recycling symbols provide information to consumers for the recycling of packaging up to six different colors: blue for paper and cardboard, yellow for plastics and cans, green for glass, orange for organic materials, red for hazardous waste, and grey for everything else. https://www.ecoembes.com/en/home European Certification of Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast): The EuCertPlast Certification is a European wide certification program for companies that recycle post-consumer plastic waste. https://www.eucertplast.eu/ How2Recycle Certification: The How2Recycle Label provides guidance to consumers on how to recycle packaging for consumable goods. The label is intended to be used on all types of packaging and to provide instruction regarding how and where various raw materials can be recycled. http://www.how2recycle.info/ ISO 18602: ISO 18602 provides criteria for optimization of packaging systems. It outlines a procedure for reduction of packaging material weight or volume while taking into consideration packaging function. It also provides assessment methodology for substances hazardous to the environment and heavy metals. https://www.iso.org/standard/55870.html Japanese Recycling Symbols: Used in Japan, Japanese recycling symbols tell in a glance to consumers what is recyclable and what is not recyclable, and assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.jcpra.or.jp/Portals/0/resource/eng/JCPRAdocuments202012.pdf Le Guide du TRI (Citeo Sorting Guide): sed in France, the Citeo Sorting Guide provides information to companies about which product components should be recycled and which should be disposed. https://bo.citeo.com/sites/default/files/2019-07/20190617_Guide_Info-tri_Citeo_EN.pdf On-Pack Recycling Label: Used in the UK, the On-Pack Recycling Label details how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. http://www.oprl.org.uk/ The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR): The APR is an international national trade association representing the plastics recycling industry. https://plasticsrecycling.org/about The Triman: Used in France, the Triman is a recycling symbol in e-commerce that sells and ships to France. https://www.msl.io/uploads/downloads/Triman-Users-handbook-english-V21.pdf Woolworths Recycling Labels: Used in South Africa, the Woolworths Recycling Labels detail how best to label packaging for recycling to assist consumers in recycling correctly. https://www.woolworths.co.za/content/howto/good-business-journey/how-to-read-our-recycling-labels/_/A-cmp201960 | Circulytics – Measuring circularity: The Ellen Macarthur Foundation's Circulytics assesses a company’s overall circularity. The tool is designed to support a company’s evolution to a circular economy by informing strategy development and decision making, and identifying opportunities to align with circular economy principles including: designing out waste, keeping materials and products in use, and generating environmental benefits. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0: The Global Protocol for Packaging Sustainability (GPPS 2.0) is a common set of indicators and metrics for business regarding sustainable packaging. The Consumer Goods Forum condensed the "Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics Framework", developed by GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, into GPPS 2.0. https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf Recycle Now: Recycle Now is the national recycling effort in England. The website contains examples of recycling labels that may be used on packaging and how to interpret them. http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle/packaging-symbols-explained Walmart Sustainable Packaging Playbook: Walmart provides an overview of sustainable packaging best practices for suppliers interested in improving and innovating packaging. https://www.walmartsustainabilityhub.com/climate/project-gigaton/packaging | Goals: Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Material and process efficiency: Material efficiency is the ratio between the material input and the benefits derived. Resource conservation (source reduction) of material inputs and/or improving the functionality of the packaging can positively impact material efficiency. Process efficiency is the ratio between the time spent on production steps to the output. Opportunities to improve material and process efficiency include process improvement, product redesign, and technology changes to packaging equipment. It should be noted that continual source reduction has benefits, but there are trade-offs that must be assessed. Sales packaging: "Packaging that leaves a store with the consumer". (Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0:2011) Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Weight or volume optimization: "Process for the achievement of a minimum adequate weight or volume (source reduction) for meeting the necessary requirements of primary or secondary or transport packaging, when performance and user/consumer acceptability remain unchanged or adequate, thereby reducing the impact on the environment.” (ISO 18601:2013 - Packaging and the environment--General requirements for the use of ISO standards in the field of packaging and the environment) |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Transportation to Retailers | Include shipments of your product from final manufacturing facilities to downstream retailers or distributors. Include both company-owned and contracted fleet. Exclude data for return trips. If retailers are responsible for the transportation of some or all of your final product, the retailer may hold the information necessary to calculate your response. It may be made available in a public report or by request. Calculate B1 as the volume of product transported by carriers that reported emissions, divided by total volume of product transported, then multiply by 100. Reporting can occur through public disclosure or private disclosure from the supplier to your organization directly or through another party. Perform this calculation using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. If a supplier completed the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire, you may count that as compliance with this question. Examples of other compliant standards are provided in the Certifications, Standards, & Tools section below. | CDP Climate Change Questionnaire: The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire provides questions that assess a company's greenhouse gas emissions, goals, and management. The report provided by CDP provides the overview of the results from companies responding to the request. https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-companies THESIS Help Center Video: Transportation to Retailers KPI: Short video tutorial on the Transportation to Retailers KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/529545735 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWay carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Transportation and Air Quality: SmartWay: This program provides information about how to improve fuel efficiency in trucking. Carriers can use the SmartWays carbon emission calculator to track and publicly report emissions associated with their trucking operations. https://www.epa.gov/smartway | Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Calculation Tools: This site provides a list of sector toolsets developed by GHG Protocol, third-party databases, and other tools based on the GHG Protocol standards that can be used to calculate greenhouse gas inventories for use in emissions calculations. https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools | |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Worker health and safety - Manufacturing | This question aligns with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Injury and Illness rate. This rate is calculated using the Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) formula. This formula can be normalized for global applicability. Calculate B1 according to OSHA's injury and illness rate by multiplying the number of recordable injuries and illnesses by 200,000. Divide this number by the total employee hours worked to produce your final product. If multiple facilities manufacture the final product, the injury and illness rate will need to be adjusted using a weighted average based on each facility's percentage of total production. Include all employees at a facility that participate in the production of the final product. This includes both full-time and contracted employees. Calculate B2 as the total spend for your final product for which you were able to obtain data, divided by the total spend for your final product, then multiply by 100. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. THESIS General Guidance document provides guidance to calculate the weighted average. See Background Information for access to this document. The Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool is an online calculator that will compute your injury and illness rate. The OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses provides forms and information for computing your facility injury and illness rate. | Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool: This tool calculates the injury and illness incidence rate for employers. https://data.bls.gov/iirc/ OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: This webpage contains information on how to record workplace injuries and illnesses and provides the worksheets needed to correctly do so. https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms THESIS Help Center Video: Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker Health and Safety - Manufacturing KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/520108472 | How to Compute a Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management: This website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides in-depth guidance on computing injury and illness numbers. https://www.bls.gov/iif/osheval.htm SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ TSC General Guidance for Key Performance Indicators: The General Guidance Document for Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provides essential guidance to complement the specific guidance provided for each KPI. TSC recommends reading this document before you begin your first questionnaire and revisiting it as often as necessary for clarification and additional information. https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/tsc-downloads/general-guidance-document/ | Company-owned or contract manufacturing facilities: Facilities responsible for manufacturing and assembly of final products, whether these facilities are internal or external to the respondent’s organization. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |
| Small Batteries | Small Batteries | Worker health and safety - Supply chain | Components as relevant to this KPI include cathode, anode, and packaging materials such as steel or aluminum. To be included in B1-B5, risk assessments, training programs, safety plans, performance monitoring systems, and audits must be verifiable and address health and safety issues such as worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. The assessments and audits must be conducted by second or third parties. The risk assessment must be conducted once per year while the audit must have been conducted at least once every three years, both using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles such as International Labour Organization Occupational Safety and Health Conventions (e.g., No. 155). The standards and websites listed in Background Information below may be helpful for conducting your risk assessment(s) and for understanding appropriate corrective actions, which can inform your responses. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for examples of initiatives that meet these requirements. Calculate B1 as the mass of your component supply that came from operations that have performed a risk assessment to identify high risk areas for health and safety, divided by the total mass of your component supply, then multiply by 100. To determine if an operation is high risk for health and safety, you may utilize a country risk analysis tool. The tool should measure the strength of a country's ability to govern and enforce laws, regulations, and internationally recognized principles. The country risk assessment may be a first party systematic review assessment, or external risk analyses tools may be utilized. It must be conducted at least once per year. The country risk assessment can be complemented with risks associated with specific activities, regions, and suppliers. Calculate B2 as the mass of your component supply that came from operations that train workers on health and safety procedures, divided by the total mass of your component supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B2, the training on health and safety procedures must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and must be renewed as appropriate to maintain competency and implementation of good practices for workers on health and safety procedures and to prevent training exhaustion. Additional worker training may be required to perform job duties. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B3 as the mass of your component supply that came from operations that implement a verifiable worker health and safety plan, divided by the total mass of your component supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B3, a worker health and safety plan must be verifiable and must be available in the language of the employee, including migratory and seasonal workers, and be prominently displayed in the workplace where employees normally report. The plan should include best practices specific to ergonomics; repetitive motions; chemical and particulate exposure; appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE); and proper use of tools, machinery, and the handling of animals (if applicable). On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B4 as the mass of your component supply that came from operations that have a worker health and safety performance monitoring system in place, divided by the total mass of your component supply, then multiply by 100. To be included in B4, a worker health and safety performance monitoring system should include metrics on issues including, but not limited to, incidence of worker injuries and prevalence of diseases. On-site audits, where necessary, should be conducted by second or third parties and must be conducted at least once every three years using a standard based on internationally-recognized principles. Calculate B5 as the mass of your component supply that came from operations that were audited in the last three years on worker health and safety issues, divided by the total mass of your component supply, then multiply by 100. Audits should be conducted by second or third parties at least once every three years, or more often depending on the requirements of the standard organization. See the Certifications, Standards & Tools for more information. Government regulations or parties in the supply chain may initiate these audits. To be included in B5, the audits must be verifiable and address preventive measures, freely provided personal protective equipment, identification of worker health and safety hazards and effects on the exposed people, statistics and reasons behind injuries, design of work area, processes, installations, machinery/work equipment, operating processes and work organization, as outlined by internationally-recognized labor principles. Examples include, but are not limited to, principles outlined by the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour Organization Standards on Occupational Health and Safety. Perform these calculations using data from a 12-month period that ended within 12 months of the date you respond to this question. Audits must have been conducted in the 36 months prior to the end of the 12-month period. | Amfori Country Risk Classification: This list classifies countries' risk of social injustice in an effort to assist companies in determining high and low risk for their sourcing and operations. http://duediligence.amfori.org/CountryRiskClassification Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: Defines and enforces standards for the safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. OHSA also provides training, outreach education, and assistance. The OSHA tools can be used for self-evaluations, to compare elements and actions of different health and safety standards, to track implemented actions, identify remaining weaknesses, and strategies for continued improvement. https://www.osha.gov/shpguidelines/explore-tools.html SA8000® Standard: Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global non-governmental organization that aims to advance human rights at work via the SA8000® Standard. SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas that are relevant for workplaces in factories and organizations worldwide. https://sa-intl.org/programs/sa8000/ Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is an auditing system that aligns with Ethical Trading Initiative's Base Code as well International Labour Organization Conventions. It has been developed to provide a public auditing methodology and format for companies to use to assess compliance. https://www.sedex.com/our-services/smeta-audit/ THESIS Help Center Video: Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI: Short video tutorial on the Worker health and safety - Supply chain KPI. Use case-sensitive password 'thesis' when prompted. https://vimeo.com/536528345 | International Organization for Standardization - ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility: The ISO 26000 standard promotes common understanding in the field of social responsibility and addresses seven core subjects of social responsibility: human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development. Suppliers can demonstrate worker health and safety by developing programs and systems to monitor and control worker health and safety risks. Programs should include management oversight, removal or control of safety risks, safety training and equipment, recording and investigating safety incidents, access to water and toilet facilities, monitoring of risks to new and expectant mothers, and safe and clean dormitory spaces where applicable. https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html Social Accountability International Guidance Document for Social Accountability 8000: According to Social Accountability International, "this guidance document provides various tools and information for users of the Social Accountability 8000 standard, including definitions, background information, and examples." https://sa-intl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SA8000-2014-Guidance-Document.pdf United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum present an introduction to, analysis of, and business recommendations for minimizing social sustainability risks in the supply chain. https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/9 | Corrective actions: Prompt actions taken to eliminate the causes of a problem, thus preventing their recurrence. First party systematic risk assessment: A first party systematic risk assessment is conducted by the organization itself for management review and other internal purposes and may form the basis for an organization’s declaration of conformity. Second-party audit: An audit conducted by a party having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by another entity on their behalf. Third-party audit: An audit conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those providing certification of conformity to a standard. Worker exposure to harmful elements: Contact with potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological elements that occurs as a result of one's job-related activities. Examples include chronic interaction with chemicals, dusts, radiation, environmental elements, allergens, noise, and vibrations. Worker health and safety: Worker health and safety consists of worker injury and worker exposure to harmful elements. Please see the corresponding terms. Worker injury: Physical damage to an individual due to a single act that causes immediate damage or repetitive acts that cause damage over time. Examples of causes of injury include repetitive motions, non-ergonomic motions, damage from use of tools and machinery, falls, and burns. |