We have recently received the EcoVadis Bronze Medal, a reward for a continuous and extensive transformation occurring at Neutroplast, which aims to make our company a symbol in sustainable pharmaceutical packaging manufacturing. EcoVadis is an international network that is effectively having an impact on sustainability, by channelling companies’ performance throughout global supply chains and by providing ratings and intelligence, to leverage commercial relationships and promote sustainable behaviours.
By adhering to EcoVadis, we are actively placing ourselves as part of global supply chains which are enablers for buying organizations to create a real-world impact on the communities they support. By improving our own environmental and ethical practices, and by having our own suppliers be a part of that change, we promote sustainability practices throughout our scope of action, but, in practice, what does that mean to our customers, suppliers and, finally, to the world?
Neutroplast was evaluated on different levels, ranging from environmental performance, ethics, labour and human rights, to sustainable procurement. With current developments on circular economy and the plastics industry taking a turn towards dealing with environmental impact at a post-consumer level, the measures we are implementing and how we are reaching our sustainability goals, through a global market approach, provide guidance for the supply chains and communities we are part of. At this time, we feel the results of our actions signal we are going in the right direction and to that extent, our current rating, is already a tangible result of those efforts, and that is why we expect to even improve our rating, in the coming months.
Brick by brick: building an environmental stronghold
You have probably been following how, for the past year, we have significantly increased the scope and breadth of our actions on sustainability. We have pushed for creating awareness among our colleagues and stakeholders, established partnerships to further our environmental goals and paired these efforts with an intense updating of company policies and productive processes. The list of measures is long: from promoting circular economy through education and research projects to locally improving environmental performance, our strategy has changed or introduced hundreds of elements in our processes, our procurement and our relations with our stakeholders and community.
This path has taken us close to fully eradicate disposable plastics on our production site, to engage in multiple national and international research projects focused on improving the plastics industry footprint and to develop and update product lines to have a lesser impact and behave better in recycling processes. In the coming months, many of these steps will come into fruition, so keep us on your radar, to discover how we are working to create a sustainable plastics industry. And, of course, you can always contact us through our website or at neutroplast@neutroplast.com!