Trunkstyle Ltd

Environmental Policy

1. Responsibility
The Company recognises a responsibility to the environment, the company’s customers, selling principals and staff to base its commercial activities on well-managed forests.

2. Legality
The Company is committed to sourcing all timber from legal sources.

3. Endangered Species
The Company will not source any timber species prohibited under Appendix I of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

4. Supplier Monitoring
The Company will regularly obtain from selling principals
a) information relating to their environmental practices
b) clearest practicable information on the sources of raw material used in the manufacture of wood products.
The information received will form part of purchasing decisions and will be made available on request to interested parties.

5. Timber Certification
The Company recognises that the independent certification of forests and the process chain is the most useful tool in providing assurances that the timber comes from legal and well-managed forests. The company will only accept or use labels or certificates which include environmental or sustainability claims if these are supported by publicly available standards drawn up in a fully participatory, transparent and objective manner and backed by independent inspection.

6. Avoid Boycotts
The Company will not encourage boycotts or bans on specific species of timber. Notwithstanding this, the Company will cease to source any species if its supply is in breach of commitments 2 or 3.

7. Avoid Misleading Claims
The Company will avoid misleading and unsubstantiated environmental claims in relation to wood products supplies.

8. Management Structure
The company has appointed a Director to be responsible for the implementation of this policy and will ensure that environmental issues relevant to the policy are discussed regularly at the highest level of management. The company will ensure that all employees associated with timber sourcing are encouraged to act in accordance with this policy and are given appropriate education and training to do so if required.

9. Reporting & Audit
The company accepts the principles of external audit and will agree to requests from Forests Forever staff or their appointed representatives to conduct an on site audit of sourcing procedures.

10. Continuous Improvement
The Company will define its own programme, and establish its own objectives and targets, to achieve continuous improvement in environmental performance in accordance with this Policy.

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