Welcome to CTPA's Sustainability Hub
CTPA's strategic objective to deliver the CTPA Sustainability Strategy, 'Driving towards a Net Positive Cosmetics Industry' brings industry together, working in partnership with others to deliver short, medium and long-term outputs. Together with the CTPA's Sustainability Committee, we continue to build our understanding of key issues, identifying and engaging key partners and highlighting how industry is collaborating to act as a hub for system-wide change to help all companies, members and non-members, to work towards this ambitious goal.
The CTPA Sustainability Hub is a vital resource providing definitions, legal requirements and related guidance, both external and from CTPA, to help steer companies of all sizes towards making their own roles, products and businesses more sustainable. The Hub is designed around the three pillars of CTPA's Sustainability Strategy:
Please note that any specific examples referenced within the Sustainability Hub are indicative of the organisations offering support on the key sustainability issues. CTPA is not endorsing or recommending any commercial organisations and is not responsible for the content of external sites. Examples provided are indicative and other organisations may be available.
As part of CTPA’s sustainability strategy, we are now offering free, confidential one-to-one sustainability sessions for members. To find out more, please visit the sustainability one-to-ones page.
Contents
Environmental Impacts of Production and the Supply Chain
Impact on Climate
United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP)
Impact on Water
Water Stewardship
Impact on Biodiversity
Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties (CBD COP)
Sourcing of Packaging Material
Responsible Sourcing
Resource Efficiency
Supply Chain
Manufacture
Transportation and Logistics
E-Commerce
Evaluation and Reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility
Carbon Footprint
Waste and End-of-Life Fate
Packaging
Hierarchy of Waste
Single-Use Plastic
Biodegradability and Composability
Waste Packaging Sorting
Sustainable Packaging Design Principles
Material Selection
Decoration
Pack Optimisation
Pack Simplicity
Ingredients
Environmental Safety Assessments
Biodegradability and Compostability
Wellbeing
For Consumers
Societal and Community Impact
Claims, Advertising and Communication
For Employees
Ethical Principles for Workers Throughout the Supply Chain
Diversity and Inclusivity
CTPA is working with a number of different environmental organisations to proactively develop initiatives, raise awareness and change behaviours among consumers. This work also means that CTPA can provide companies with high quality, up-to-date information on this Sustainability Hub. A number of webinars with expert organisations have already been held and are planned in the future. If you are a member of CTPA, remember that the CTPA team is available for individual advice for your business.
This resource is constantly evolving and will be updated regularly. Please feel free to let us know of any topics that you would like to see added.
