Vinyl Sustainability Council Verifies Nine Companies Through Industry Sustainability Initiative

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2021 /CSRwire/ – The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC), a self-funded enterprise council advancing sustainability within the vinyl business, is happy to announce it has verified 9 firms by means of the business sustainability initiative +Vantage Vinyl™ for assembly its sustainability necessities and honoring its Guiding Rules.

“Firms that confirm to +Vantage Vinyl exhibit their management and dedication to sustainability,” mentioned Jay Thomas, VSC Government Director. “It’s each firm’s accountability, and in flip, your complete business’s, to make sure they’re doing extra with much less. With +Vantage Vinyl verification, firms are offering shoppers with a transparent view of their dedication to advancing sustainable practices.”

+Vantage Vinyl is a voluntary effort to advance the U.S. vinyl business’s contribution to sustainable growth. It promotes sustainability of the vinyl business throughout three influence classes: useful resource effectivity and recycling, well being and security, and emissions.

The initiative’s construction ensures that every firm is advancing the sustainability journey of the vinyl business in alignment with focused United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives, that are addressing pressing world challenges.

Collaborating firms should exhibit their contribution to business progress in  every of the three influence classes. Third-party verification physique GreenCircle Licensed, LLC then verifies and studies on the actions and key efficiency indicators achieved by every firm.

For 2020, the verified firms embrace: the OXO World Enterprise Unit of ExxonMobil Chemical Firm, Formosa Plastics Company, GEON Efficiency Options, Lubrizol Superior Supplies, Inc. – TempRite® Engineered Polymers, Occidental Chemical Company, Shintech Integrated, Sika Company – Roofing, Vestolit, and Westlake Chemical Company.

“The dedication to sustainability by these firms is main your complete vinyl business in its journey of steady enchancment.” Thomas mentioned. “The work they accomplished in 2020 has allowed us to set new benchmarks and targets as we proceed to work towards a extra sustainable future.”

For extra data, go to vantagevinyl.com.

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Concerning the Vinyl Sustainability Council
The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC), based in 2016 in partnership with the Vinyl Institute, is a council created to advance the vinyl business’s efforts in addressing sustainability. The VSC is a collaborative platform for firms, organizations and different business stakeholders to come back collectively to create a sustainable growth path for the business. For extra data, please go to https://vantagevinyl.com/vinyl-sustainability-council/.

Vinyl Sustainability Council

Vinyl Sustainability Council

The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC) is a voluntary group that’s taking a management function in bringing the business collectively to advance sustainable efficiency all through the vinyl worth chain. Primarily based on a stakeholder materiality evaluation, the VSC focuses its efforts in three influence classes recognized by business stakeholders: Landfill Diversion, Well being and Security and Emissions. Collectively VSC members are establishing baselines and figuring out targets to trace and report on the vinyl business’s progress.

The VSC launched +Vantage Vinyl, the US business’s first-ever sustainability model that verifies VSC member firms which might be making sustainability developments inside every of the influence classes. +Vantage Vinyl verified firms are verified by an impartial third-party and are award the usage of the +Vantage Vinyl mark to suggest they’re contributing to the business targets and reporting their progress on an annual foundation.

VSC membership consists of, and is open to, firms and group all through the viny/PVC worth chain together with: resin, compound and additive producers, vinyl product producers, extruders, recyclers, gear producers, distributors, and retailers.

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