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Reasons for this survey

Furniture was one of seven sectors targeted in Defra’s recent Draft Waste Prevention Plan for England (Chapter 7)[1]. The Government has also adopted a 2030 goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 68%, compared to those in 1990.

In this context, we need to understand the environmental targets adopted and actions being taken by the furniture industry – hence this survey of members of the affiliated trade associations that make up the British Furniture Confederation (BFC). We plan to use your responses to define precisely how we can best assist the delivery of industry-wide waste reduction and climate ambitions. No individual company responses will be published.

Finally, a big thank you for completing this survey and helping us to understand better the sustainability status of our sector and how we can best support you and the industry as a whole to address the challenges of climate change. 

Yours faithfully

The BFC Executive Team

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* 1. Your Name

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* 2. Your Company

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* 3. Your role

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* 4. Your email

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* 5. Is your business

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* 6. In which of the following sectors does your company operate?

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* 7. Which of the following products does your company make/import?

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Do you consider there is a need to improve measurement and management of wastes from end of life furniture?

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Do you consider there is a need to measure and reduce CO2 emissions from the full life cycle of furniture?

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Are there other more important or equally important environmental/sustainability issues that need to be addressed?

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Do you measure in-house wastes?

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Are you recycling your wastes?

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Do you know what the end destinations of your waste are?

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Have you set any specific reduction targets?

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Do you measure the CO emissions for which you are directly responsible?

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Have you set any specific reduction targets?

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* 17. Do you know what Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are?

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Have you adopted ISO 14001 or similar?

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* 19. Have you joined or considered joining the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme (FISP)?

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* 20. Any other activities? 

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Do any of your products display an Eco-label (of any type)?

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* 22. Have you adopted an Ecodesign guide?

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Do you offer to take-back any of your products?

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If yes, what happens to your takeback products

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Do you purchase recycled materials/components for manufacture?

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* 26. Do you use packaging which is made from recycled materials

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Is your packaging collected for reuse or recycling?

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Any other product activities not covered here? Please state

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* 29. Is sustainability a top-three priority for any of your brands?

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Have you adopted any of the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals?)

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* 31. Have you signed up to or adopted any other sustainability-related pledges

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Do you publish an annual report on your sustainability metrics and targets?

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Have you set a Net Zero carbon target?

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How sustainable do you consider is the UK furniture industry?

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Do you want UK Furniture Trade Associations to provide more leadership on sustainability?

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What prevents you from being more ambitious for the environment? Please rank your answers with 1 being the strongest reason and so on.

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Do you think that you need help to become more sustainable?

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* 38. Please share any other comments you have below:

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