Introducing The CHSA'S Roadmap To Sustainability

Sustainability is one of the biggest issues facing our sector and it is one of the most complex. Identifying the right way forward and making the most environmentally and ethically sustainable choices is challenging, particularly as our members respond to day-to-day commercial pressures.

Our Roadmap to Sustainability is designed to help members move in the right direction, whatever their starting position. It offers value by:

• Informing and educating members on the sustainability agenda and associated issues;
• Providing members with a strategic way forward for developing their approach to sustainability; and
• Helping the membership align on sustainability and so drive the industry forward.

Our Roadmap launched with the successful webinar - Sustainability and the Cleaning Industry. A Fact Sheet including the questions and answers from the webinar, will be published soon.

Today we are launching the Directory and the first two Fact Sheets, on the Five Pillars of the Roadmap and the Plastic Packaging Tax.

Fact Sheet: Plastic Packaging Tax

Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) came into effect on 1st April 2022. Our Fact Sheet provides a brief overview of PPT. It will help you decide if the tax applies to you and, if it does, how to respond. If PPT does not, it will help you understand your wider responsibility and the records you are advised to keep.

Click here to download the Fact Sheet on Plastic Packaging Tax.

Fact Sheet: Five Pillars For Sustainability

Our Roadmap to Sustainability identifies Five Pillars to sustainability in our sector. They are:

• Product: as it is received, used and disposed of by the end user.
• Packaging: all the packaging of a product, throughout the supply chain.
• Transportation: encompassing the movement of raw materials and delivery to the end user.
• Social values: including mental wellbeing, personal development, community involvement and the overall ethical approach of the business, which includes sourcing from ethically and environmental sustainability suppliers.
• Corporate environmental impact covering waste, emissions and water.

Click here to access the Fact Sheet on the Five Pillars.