40 – Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure, and Tourism Services

Sustainability
Category
Topic
Plastics use and
management
Topic
Specification
(if available)
Explanation Reference(s) 1 Constituency
2. Ask your retailer
Chances are, they will carry FSC certified products. If not,
let them know you would be interested in certified
products. Not all certification systems are equal and only
FSC guarantees that the product has been made from
environmentally and responsibly managed forests.
By asking for FSC certified products, you show that there
is a demand. This is an important and simple way how
you can help FSC to make a difference.
Plastic, a valuable material, can generate significant
positive, or negative, impacts on economy, environment
and society. Plastic should be treated as a resource and
managed judiciously.
353, 367 Civil Society
Organization
A disclosure on management approach for plastics,
including governance, strategy, risks, opportunities,
considering: opportunities for product redesign,
increasing recycled content, implementing reclaim
and/or reuse which could attract economies, brand
loyalty, investment, employee goodwill, and; risks to the
business, stakeholder health, environment and society
(including reputational/social license to operate,
regulatory, investor, insurer, and liability risks) for
plastics that are directly harmful to stakeholders, or
indirectly through plastics being wasted/littered.
Performance indicators regarding the types and volumes
of plastics being used, collected and/or distributed
downstream; the portion that is made of post-consumerrecycled,
bio-based, biodegradable, compostable, and/or
oxobiodegradable material; the ratio of expected life-
Sustainability Topics for Sectors: What do stakeholders want to know?
HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND LEISURE, AND TOURISM SERVICES
May 2013
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