This document is for reference only. Please type your disclosure answers directly on the
website survey form.
General
1. What are the major benefits and risks for your organization of using plastics in your
products, operations and packaging?
Governance
2. Who is responsible within your organisation for issues related to the environmental
impact of plastic? Is this responsibility represented at Board or C-Suite level?
3. Has your organisation accepted the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
for plastic used in your products and packaging?
Plastic Footprint
4. Are you aware of what happens to the plastic you use in your products and packaging
after its use by your customers? What percentage is disposed of in landfills or other
disposal locations? How much is recovered as a result of energy conversion (%) or
recycling (%)?
5. What is the estimated use (in tonnes) of plastics in your directly managed
operations/supply chain, and explain the calculation methodology employed?
6. What are the main types of plastic used in your products and packaging, broken down
by type and volume? What percentage of such plastic used is biodegradable or recycled?
If recycled material is used, what percentage of the total material used is recycled
content? What percentage of plastic used is for short-user-life products or packaging?
Plastic Management Strategy
7. What steps do you plan to take, or have taken, this year to reduce the amount of nonbiodegradable plastic, shift away from short-user-life products or packaging, or increase
recycled content in your products, operations and packaging? Please also provide
volume or percentage changes.
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Investment Risks
8. Have you experienced reductions in your revenue, or increases in your operating costs
during the past year due to government restrictions or taxation of plastic use in products
or packaging, or because of higher plastic resin prices due to higher oil and gas prices?
Has this had a materially negative impact on your earnings results? Is this something
that you actively monitor?
9. Have you or your customers experienced an increase in landfill dumping fees in the last
1-2 years, or been subject to a ban on dumping of non-combustable materials,
particularly as relates to plastic waste?
Investment Opportunities
10. What action(s) has or will your organisation take this year to reduce the amount of nonbiodegradable plastic used by introducing innovative products or packaging that are
more environmentally friendly? Has this created new business opportunities? If so,
what?
11. Has the recycled content in your products and packaging risen? If so, what percentage
out of total plastic used is recycled material? Has this created new business
opportunities? If so, what?
12. What technologies, products or services has or will your organisation develop or adopt to
mitigate the environmental impact of short-user-life plastics? Has this created new
business opportunities? If so what?
13. Have you achieved cost savings through better product and packaging designs, use of
alternative materials, or more use of recycled content? Has this created new business
opportunities? If so, what?
Public Disclosure
14. What benefits have you recorded / witnessed to your reputation in the past year from
publicising your organisation’s efforts to develop more environmentally friendly plastic
products or packaging?
October 31, 2011
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