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Environmental
(Fighting climate change)
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To improve Dam’s environmental performance last year, we
engaged with EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of
business sustainability ratings, intelligence, and collaborative
performance improvement tools for global supply chains.
EcoVadis’s easy to use and actionable sustainability scorecards
provide detailed insight into environmental, social, and ethical
risks across 200 purchasing strategies and 160 countries.
They analysed our performance
and benchmarked us against the
worldwide Furniture Industry on 4
main categories:
Environmental
Labour and Human Rights
Ethics
Sustainable Procurement
We’ve recently received our Ecovadis Sustainability rating for 2023 and
we’ve achieved a score of 69 - a solid improvement on last year’s score of
66! This puts us in the 93rd percentile, high energy uses for equipment and
look for anomalous energy usage.
After this data has been received, analysed and monitored regularly, we
accurately input initiatives to reduce energy consumption and run the
business efficiently. Our ESOS phase 3 report is underway to provide us
with additional insights into our energy saving opportunities.
We set out all design briefs to maximise the use of recycled content and the
potential for 100% recyclability as per principles of ISO/TE 14062:2002.
Dams purchase Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®C160081) certified
timber-based products which ensures product is only sourced from
managed, sustainable, and legal forests.
We select materials that have high sustainable environmental credentials
and can be recycled at the end of life. As an example, one of our fabric
manufacturers ‘Camira’ have introduced a new range of Sustainable Fabrics
which we are promoting.
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