SHOW THE WORLD.

GAIN THE EDGE.

EARN THE MARK.

BE PROUD. WE ARE VINYL.

In a short time, we leveraged science and ingenuity to achieve remarkable environmental and health safety advancements. And we continue to improve our products and operations each year, proving vinyl to be what we always knew it was – indispensable.

Now, let’s show the world our material advantage and gain a competitive advantage. Earn the mark and help yourself and your industry elevate vinyl to its rightful position as a preferred material for a sustainable tomorrow.

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Emissions to water have declined from 0.2% in 1987 to 0.01% in 2017*

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Since 1987, PVC resin production has nearly doubled. Yet, in that time, VCM ambient emissions have decreased by 86%*

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In 2017, OSHA recordable injuries decreased by 30% in facilities operated by Vinyl Institute members

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Vinyl's ambient dioxin emissions have decreased by 52% since 2009*

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PVC represents only 3.6% of all plastics landfilled

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WHAT "THE MARK" IS

AND WHY YOU SHOULD EARN IT

The powerful new symbol of sustainable vinyl, the +Vantage Vinyl® verified mark signals to the world that the company bearing the mark meets environmental, health, and social criteria as verified by GreenCircle Certified, LLC, an independent third-party.

EARNING +VANTAGE VINYL
VERIFICATION CAN HELP:

  • Prepare your company and industry for the future
  • Set your company apart as a preferred supplier
  • Improve customer relations, employee morale, and company reputation
  • Achieve company recognition as an industry sustainability thought leader
  • Become eligible for leadership in vinyl industry sustainability awards
What you get with
+Vantage Vinyl
Verification

Framework

Framework

Access to an industry-proven process to track, verify, and advance your sustainability efforts.

Marketing

Marketing

Use of the +Vantage Vinyl name, trademark, images, and intellectual property to set your company apart.

RESEARCH

RESEARCH

Access to information to help you advance continuous improvement efforts in the top three impact areas identified by stakeholders.

COLLABORATION

COLLABORATION

Access to industry leading task forces for brainstorming and sharing best practices and lessons learned.

RESULTS & REPORTING

RESULTS & REPORTING

Use of benchmarking data to identify where your company excels and where to focus.

MEMBER NETWORKING

MEMBER NETWORKING

Connecting with other +Vantage Vinyl verified companies across the supply chain for collaboration on new and sustainable solutions.

HOW TO EARN THE MARK

Unlike other programs, +Vantage Vinyl verification isn’t just window dressing. Instead, companies earning the prestigious mark must report on sustainability performance every year and be reverified every three years to maintain their mark.

The +Vantage Vinyl initiative is framed around five pillars aligned with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria. Within each pillar are a series of guiding principles that set the direction and parameters for what a company will achieve over time on its journey of continuous improvement. The guiding principles support improved industry performance across three material impact categories: resource efficiency, emissions, and health and safety.

For companies with an existing ESG initiative, +Vantage Vinyl verification is the logical next step. For companies who have yet to embark on ESG, the +Vantage Vinyl initiative can become the basis for your ESG program.

  • Use of Environmental and Safety Management Systems and Operational Advanced Practices that Minimize Risk to Employees.

    Documented evidence of implementing best manufacturing practices.

    Lead, Hexavalent Chromium, and Cadmium as Added Ingredients in Vinyl Components are Not Used.

    Improve production of PVC products.

    Safely employ additives based on current data and scientific assessment methodologies.

    Safe manufacture and use of PVC products.

  • Provide open disclosure of additives in PVC products.

    Disclose information on additives used in PVC products to stakeholders.

    Manufacture safe and user-friendly products and consider potential effects throughout the product life cycle.

    Manufacturing of safe products.

    Manufacture or Use VCM that Relies on the Use of Advanced Technologies.

    Improve production process of PVC products.

  • Sustainability Portfolio Analysis.

    Sustainably manufacture PVC products.

Provide company operational performance metrics in annual survey for use in industry reporting.

Collect data to measure progress against baseline.

Demonstrate a commitment to improving the energy and greenhouse gas emission profile of PVC products

Reduce end-product embodied carbon.

  • Reduce releases to the environment

    Reduce emissions to water, air, and soil.

    Use land and other natural resources prudently to protect biodiversity and ecosystems

    To prevent unintended product releases to the environment and to foster biodiversity within the ecosystem.

    Implement water reuse and conservation practices to reduce the depletion of water resources and thereby support the availability of clean water

    Water conservation.

  • Establish resource conservation and material efficiency when setting business strategy objectives and goals

    Integrate resource conservation and efficiency in business planning.

    Support Watershed Management Practices

    Protect watershed health.

    Employ responsible sourcing practices that encourage supplier reductions in environmental impacts and minimal use of natural resources with positive lifecycle implications

    Responsible sourcing practices

  • Provide ready and easy-to-understand access to relevant information about the company’s compensation, benefits, recognition and incentive opportunities that meet the changing needs of employees.

    Transparent communications with employees regarding employment and benefits.

    Create a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and has equal opportunity to contribute.

    Create a welcoming and inclusive work environment.

    Subscribe to corporate governance policies that are opposed to discrimination, child labor, bribery and corruption, human trafficking, forced labor, or use of conflict minerals.

    No discrimination or exploitation of any population segment.

  • Treat suppliers, customers, and business partners fairly and ethically through honest and mutually beneficial dealings.

    Transparent and ethical business practices.

    Promote open and fair competition throughout industry and in dealing with other business entities, regulators, and government officials. This includes compliance with competition and antitrust laws.

    Promote open and fair competition.

    Establish sustainability as a criterion in identifying research and development and innovation projects

    Include sustainability as a criterion when evaluating R&D projects or capital projects.

    Work within the industry to find solutions, create pilot programs, identify opportunities, and implement them for sustainability-driven advances and innovation.

    Promote industry collaboration.

  • Communicate company sustainability initiatives

    Transparency within sustainability initiatives.

    Contribute to Community Outreach Where Companies Operate.

    Benefiting your community through outreach, education, and engagement.

    Engage external stakeholders in development of company sustainability programs

    Develop a feedback loop that considers external stakeholder input in company sustainability programs.

    Promote industry and company's vinyl sustainability work

    Promote the advancement of the vinyl sustainability programming.

Minimize waste.

Reduce managed volumes that are landfilled. Reduce carbon footprint through recycled products.

Reuse, recycling and recovery in accordance with sustainable materials management principles.

Resource efficiency through reuse and recovery practices during production and incorporation of recycled content and recycling programs.

Responsibly Recycle Products that Contain Regulated Additives.

Safe use and conversion of recycled materials into the company’s own products.

  • Human Health

  • Use of Environmental and Safety Management Systems and Operational Advanced Practices that Minimize Risk to Employees.

    Documented evidence of implementing best manufacturing practices.

    Lead, Hexavalent Chromium, and Cadmium as Added Ingredients in Vinyl Components are Not Used.

    Improve production of PVC products.

    Safely employ additives based on current data and scientific assessment methodologies.

    Safe manufacture and use of PVC products.

    Provide open disclosure of additives in PVC products.

    Disclose information on additives used in PVC products to stakeholders.

    Manufacture safe and user-friendly products and consider potential effects throughout the product life cycle.

    Manufacturing of safe products.

    Manufacture or Use VCM that Relies on the Use of Advanced Technologies.

    Improve production process of PVC products.

    Sustainability Portfolio Analysis.

    Sustainably manufacture PVC products.

  • Climate Responsibility

  • Provide company operational performance metrics in annual survey for use in industry reporting.

    Collect data to measure progress against baseline.

    Demonstrate a commitment to improving the energy and greenhouse gas emission profile of PVC products

    Reduce end-product embodied carbon.

  • Ecosystem Protection

  • Reduce releases to the environment

    Reduce emissions to water, air, and soil.

    Use land and other natural resources prudently to protect biodiversity and ecosystems

    To prevent unintended product releases to the environment and to foster biodiversity within the ecosystem.

    Implement water reuse and conservation practices to reduce the depletion of water resources and thereby support the availability of clean water

    Water conservation.

    Establish resource conservation and material efficiency when setting business strategy objectives and goals

    Integrate resource conservation and efficiency in business planning.

    Support Watershed Management Practices

    Protect watershed health.

    Employ responsible sourcing practices that encourage supplier reductions in environmental impacts and minimal use of natural resources with positive lifecycle implications

    Responsible sourcing practices

  • Social Health & Equity

  • Provide ready and easy-to-understand access to relevant information about the company’s compensation, benefits, recognition and incentive opportunities that meet the changing needs of employees.

    Transparent communications with employees regarding employment and benefits.

    Create a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and has equal opportunity to contribute.

    Create a welcoming and inclusive work environment.

    Subscribe to corporate governance policies that are opposed to discrimination, child labor, bribery and corruption, human trafficking, forced labor, or use of conflict minerals.

    No discrimination or exploitation of any population segment.

    Treat suppliers, customers, and business partners fairly and ethically through honest and mutually beneficial dealings.

    Transparent and ethical business practices.

    Promote open and fair competition throughout industry and in dealing with other business entities, regulators, and government officials. This includes compliance with competition and antitrust laws.

    Promote open and fair competition.

    Establish sustainability as a criterion in identifying research and development and innovation projects

    Include sustainability as a criterion when evaluating R&D projects or capital projects.

    Work within the industry to find solutions, create pilot programs, identify opportunities, and implement them for sustainability-driven advances and innovation.

    Promote industry collaboration.

    Communicate company sustainability initiatives

    Transparency within sustainability initiatives.

    Contribute to Community Outreach Where Companies Operate.

    Benefiting your community through outreach, education, and engagement.

    Engage external stakeholders in development of company sustainability programs

    Develop a feedback loop that considers external stakeholder input in company sustainability programs.

    Promote industry and company's vinyl sustainability work

    Promote the advancement of the vinyl sustainability programming.

  • Circular Economy

  • Minimize waste.

    Reduce managed volumes that are landfilled. Reduce carbon footprint through recycled products.

    Reuse, recycling and recovery in accordance with sustainable materials management principles.

    Resource efficiency through reuse and recovery practices during production and incorporation of recycled content and recycling programs.

    Responsibly Recycle Products that Contain Regulated Additives.

    Safe use and conversion of recycled materials into the company’s own products.

TAKE THE FIRST
STEP TODAY

+Vantage Vinyl verification is open to any company in the vinyl supply chain who is also a member of the Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC). If your company is not yet a member of the VSC, join today and take the first step toward earning the mark.

Your membership in the VSC accelerates your company’s path to verification through a host of support services, sustainability resources, and networking opportunities.

Interested? Download the Informational Packet by filling out the form below.

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