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Environmental 2 (Fighting climate change)
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
In July 2021, we were awarded a Silver Sustainability Rating and are using their report and analysis to improve our sustainability factors across all areas of the business.
During the latter part of 2021, we partnered with Businesswise Solutions to install many monitoring devices across the business to gather data and establish our high energy uses for equipment and look for anomalous energy usage. This data is monitored regularly and we are inputting initiatives to reduce our energy consumption and run our business efficiently.
Dams are on track to achieve Netzero carbon status by 2035 – well in advance of global government targets.
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 FSC 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:
• Oceanic: made 100% Polyester from Land and Sea Waste. (50% Recycled Plastic Bottles from the Ocean and 50% Recycled Bottles from the Land)
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