Environmental reporting for furniture manufacturers: How to get started
An explanation of the merits of reporting your environmental performance. You need to measure before you can improve and this work highlights simple ways of making progress. Impress your customers by being proactive and differentiate yourselves from the competition now.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Background to the UK furniture manufacturing industry
- Corporate environmental reporting
- Statement of aims
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Distribution by sector, size of company and by participation in environmental initiatives
- Does your company report its environmental performance internally or externally?
- Discussion
- Reporting in the furniture sector
- Drivers and barriers
- Conclusions
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