Blundstone Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

Blundstone states that it operates according to values that ensure legal, ethical and responsible policies, practices and processes are adopted throughout the company. Its stated values include integrity, community and design, with a commitment to minimise its impact on the environment. The company says it supports the prevention of exploitation of home-based labour and ensures that neither it nor its suppliers exploit adult or child labour. It also says it is committed to sustainable development, evaluates development policies with reference to environmental considerations, and encourages suppliers to meet the same standards.

Ethical and responsible values

The Blundstone Group operates according to a set of values that ensures legal, ethical and responsible policies, practices and processes are always adopted and put into practice throughout the company. Our stated values are family, customer, community, design and integrity. Integrity includes a commitment to behave ethically, act with integrity and minimise our impact on the environment.

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Supports labour standards

The Blundstone Group fully supports and complies with the industry code of practice designed to prevent exploitation of home-based labor. The Group also ensures that neither we nor our suppliers exploit adult or child labor.

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Uses recycled packaging

We maximize our use of recycled and recyclable materials in our manufacture and packaging. We minimize the use of raw material, chemicals and fossil fuels.

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Environmental policy review

Blundstone pursues development policies which are evaluated with reference to environmental considerations. We conform, and where possible exceed, all federal, state and local government regulations and encourage our suppliers to do likewise.

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Ethical employment checks

Blundstone takes a proactive approach to satisfying itself that the standard is maintained. This is achieved through third-party on-site auditing of a tier-one or tier-two partner if they are assessed as posing an increased risk of potentially not meeting our employment standards, access to independent third-party standards accreditations audit reports, and Quality Inspectors present on-site in all tier-one footwear partner sites.

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