In 2010, Sustainable Living Fabrics was the first company to receive the carbon neutral certification through NCOS for both operations and products.
Carbon and energy management specialists, Pangolin Associates, manage our NCOS requirements ongoing. This includes an annual carbon footprint, comprehensive carbon reduction recommendations, and annual offsetting services with certified carbon credits for emissions that we cannot eliminate. In 2016, Pangolin Associates also conducted our Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), an essential strategy for maintaining carbon neutrality.
The Australian Carbon Trust's NCOS Carbon Neutral Program certification covers all fabrics and services supplied by Sustainable Living Fabrics and requires the offset of:
1. The production of every fabric right down the supply chain from raw materials to delivery to customer including but not limited to:
- Extraction of raw materials (including the methane & nitrous oxide from the sheep)
- Conversion of raw materials to fibre & yarn
- Conversion of yarn to finished fabric
- All related transport along the supply chain
2. Warehousing, administrative & support activities
3. All company cars, the sales team's cars & employees' cars when used on company business
4. All company air and taxi travel
