Sustainability Report 2024
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POLLUTION
Our approach focuses on reducing the potential environmental impact of products and packaging, prioritizing materials with a lower risk of contamination and promoting their reuse whenever possible. This material topic refers to water, soil and microplastics pollution, environmental impacts that originate mainly in AODACi’s value chain. The selection of materials and the design of products and packaging play a central role in preventing these impacts, which affect ecosystems, biodiversity and human health. The lack of control over toxic substances and hazardous waste in upstream production stages can compromise water quality and contaminate soils. The presence of microplastics and inadequate disposal practices exacerbate the degradation of ecosystems and promote the spread of persistent pollutants in the environment.
APPROACH AND RESULTS
exercise and applied reuse suggestions to all products in the catalog. The internally defined target was fully met; therefore, no specific performance indicators were set for this action.
Soil, water and microplastics pollution are among the potential impacts associated with the materials used and the end-of-life of the products and packaging marketed by AODACi. Although these impacts occur mostly outside the company’s direct operations, their mitigation depends on decisions made during the product design and development phase. In this context, priority was given to selecting materials with lower environmental impact, namely natural or recycled options, whenever available and technically feasible. Packaging was designed with a second-use function to avoid immediate disposal and delay its entry into the end-of-life phase. They can be reused, for example, as a pencil holder, keyboard support or base for objects.
For aodaci, every package is an opportunity to create value, not the end of a cycle.
By reducing the likelihood of early disposal, these measures help limit waste generation and the impacts associated with landfill disposal or the dispersion of microplastics in the environment.
Our Design Team conducted a benchmarking
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