RESPONSIBLE MANUFACTURE
Carefully crafted and built to last, our furniture has been designed using a life-cycle thinking approach. We design products for disassembly and with the longest lifespans in mind. From fully traceable hides and feathers to sustainably sourced timber, we think hard about the materials that go into our products and the ethics surrounding their production. To move closer towards a circular economy we choose healthy and renewable materials, materials with a high recycled content and those that can be easily recycled at end of life. Our furniture take back system, ReWork, means you can return a product to us for remanufacture at end of life. This puts our extended producer responsibility into action and makes sure we design with end of life in mind, so that a product’s materials may be reclaimed and circulated over multiple lifecycles.
TRANSPARENCY
We have created environmental product summaries for our entire collection so that you can easily see which products have the highest renewable or recycled content. We are in the process of carrying out a full life cycle assessment for each product range so that we can assess embodied impacts across 13 categories, from global warming potential to water use. This visibility will help you select the most sustainable products for a project and guide us to where we need to make change. Head over to our resources section to see our LCAs and watch this space over the coming months as we add more ranges. A collaborative approach is the quickest route to change at scale, we are always happy to share information and knowledge. If you would like to pick our brains or have a bright idea please get in touch sustainability@modusfurniture.co.uk
KEEP IT SIMPLE
Sustainability can seem like such an enormous, all encompassing labyrinth it is important to stay focused on where we can influence change. We direct our efforts at our six biggest areas of impact: carbon emissions, resource use, effects of material ingredients, plastic pollution, waste generation and impacts on people. We have organised our sustainability strategy to reflect these key issues, to aid transparency and because sometimes the simplest way is the best.
SET AMBITIOUS TARGETS
We are facing a climate and biodiversity crisis never seen before. Our targets are ambitious because they reflect this crisis and they align with the far reaching objectives of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals which aim to reduce pressure on the planet and its most vulnerable people and bring about greater social equity.
MAKE IT COUNT
In making our collection we look at a product’s whole of life impacts, from cradle to grave, respecting planetary boundaries and avoiding social or environmental trade-offs. We have developed our sustainability strategy with the purpose of creating lasting, measurable and meaningful change.
GET CERTIFIED
To show our commitment to our sustainability journey we hold FSC chain of custody, ISO14001:2015 certification, we are members of the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme, a Carbon Neutral Plus Organisation and an accredited Living Wage Employer.
Our objectives
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