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Environmental Sustainability at Woven
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Environmental Policy Statement
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Woven Image has been designing, manufacturing and distributing innovative
fabrics in Australia and overseas for over 20 years. As an Australian
company serving designers, specifiers and customers worldwide, we
are committed to minimising our environmental impacts and producing
high quality fabrics and textile designs.
Within this context, Woven Image understands the value and importance
of being a responsible company, which consistently delivers environmentally
improved products and services.
Whether it’s about natural fibres or synthetic fibres, Woven
Image is constantly looking to adopt environmentally improved processes
and products.
Woven Image takes a life cycle approach to our products and services,
mindful of the need to minimise environmental impacts at all stages
of the product life cycle.
This means taking greater responsibility for Woven Image fabrics both
upstream and downstream of our core business activities. In some circles
this is referred to as a ‘Product Stewardship’ approach
or Extended Producer Responsibility.
At a strategic level, Woven Image seeks to operate in a responsible
and innovative way that exemplifies resource efficiency by using materials
smartly and sensitively. Ultimately it is about being a long-term
company … a sustainable enterprise in every respect …
environmentally, economically and socially.
This high level goal demands the ongoing and committed investment,
energy and enthusiasm for Woven Image, its staff and suppliers. We
see the journey towards sustainability as a collaborative team effort
with shared responsibility and engagement.
GUIDING
ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Woven Image has pro-actively sought to improve its own performance
wherever possible and practical. In particular, we have established
a set of guiding environmental principles that provides a framework
for the ‘greening’ of our processes, products and services.
Our guiding environmental principles are life cycle oriented, dynamic
and seek to embody the most current thinking and actions on achieving
sustainable products and services within the context of what Woven
Image (and its suppliers) can realistically control.
Our guiding principles include
- Responsible resource use including attention to biodiversity
protection and other source related raw materials factors.
- Adopting a Product Stewardship approach and applying the waste
minimisation hierarchy (avoid, reduce, reuse, recycle) as a tool
to maximise resource use efficiency, use of post consumer recycled
content and options for fundamental dematerialisation through
waste avoidance and the shift to product-service solutions.
- Elimination or significant reduction in the use of hazardous
substances and toxic materials.
- Elimination or significant reduction of emissions to air and
water where
- Minimising overall energy consumption while maximising energy
efficiency and the potential for renewables and related ‘green
power’ options.
- Minimising overall water consumption while maximising water
efficiency, conservation and the potential for water reuse and
recycling.
- Sourcing materials, products and services from suppliers with
independently certified environmental management systems or similar.
- Providing designers, specifiers and customers with informative
and educational information about the environmental performance
of Woven Image products and services.
- Ongoing research and development to ensure Woven Image products
and services represent leading edge environmental thinking, concepts,
tools and performance. This includes relevant data collection,
monitoring and reporting to facilitate overall environmental improvements.
The sustainable application of products and materials is a key
priority for Woven Image.
We not only strive to create low impacts products, we are also
developing systems and services to ensure our products don’t
contribute to future environmental problems when they are discarded
or become obsolete.
Woven Image is unequivocal in its commitment to the life cycle
management of its products. This means developing and delivering
practical take-back and recycling solutions for Woven Image fabrics
when they reach end-of-life. Woven Image firmly believes that manufacturers
and suppliers must take greater responsibility for their products
beyond the point of sale and warranty.
We will strive to retain responsibility for Woven Image fabrics
wherever practical and within our scope of business activity. In
very practical terms this means that Woven Image will assist in
the effective recovery and recycling of uncontaminated Woven Image
fabrics from disassembled workstations and partitions.
Most importantly we collaborate with Australian and overseas furniture
manufacturers to streamline end-of-life recovery and recycling by
sharing knowledge and R&D information that make reuse and recycling
commercially viable and environmentally advantageous.
This Environmental Sustainability Statement provides a strategic
policy framework and public statement for our projects, suppliers,
partners and clients.
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