Sustainable Materials reviews how a company selects, procures and integrates inputs that minimise environmental and social impacts across their life cycle. It includes:

• prioritising renewable, recycled, rapidly regenerating or bio-based feedstocks over finite virgin resources;
• verifying responsible extraction or cultivation through recognised certifications (e.g., FSC, PEFC, Fair-mined, Better Cotton, Cradle to Cradle, GRS);
• assessing full life-cycle footprints - carbon, water, toxicity, land use - and substituting high-impact substances with safer, circular alternatives;
• embedding eco-design principles (light-weighting, mono-material constructions, modularity) that facilitate repair, reuse and recyclability;
• setting and disclosing measurable targets (e.g., % sustainable content, tonnes of virgin material avoided) aligned with frameworks such as GRI 301 Materials, EU ESRS E5 Resource Use & Circular Economy, and SDG 12.