At Yakety Yak, we sell products designed and manufactured within a life cycle framework. By employing Life Cycle Analysis, Yakety Yak designers consider the various stages of the furniture’s life, from manufacture to disposal, with the aim of reducing the product’s overall environmental impact.
Yakety Yak’s design process involves…
- An ongoing commitment to using sustainable materials in the manufacture of products, taking into consideration how they are sourced and produced as well as their potential to be recycled at the end of the product’s life.
- A commitment to using supply chains, materials and manufacturing systems that will have the lightest environmental impact possible. As a benchmark for the continued improvement of environmental performance, emissions for each product are calculated and analysed based on annual sales.
- Designing and manufacturing products to be durable and long-lasting.
- Designing products that respond to current and future needs so that they remain relevant and useful for years to come.
- Ensuring the furniture is easy to maintain, repair and recycle.
- Using biodegradable packaging wherever possible.
- Actively engaging and staying up-to-date with sustainable best practices.
- Using like-minded suppliers.
- Always striving to improve.
Environmental policy
To pursue a process of ongoing improvement to minimise operational impacts on the environment. To work toward utilising what are considered sustainable, renewable and/or recyclable materials and processes in the design, manufacturing, sale and distribution of all products.
Manufactured under the following commitments and policy objectives*:
- To have zero breaches of environmental legislative requirements and regulations.
- To comply and work toward exceeding local regulations for discharge, noise, air emissions and land use.
- To continually improve environmental performance and work toward minimising pollution created from production process, sales and distribution.
- Design and production planning processes that seek to audit and utilise environmentally sound materials and processes and optimise usage through design consideration within a life cycle perspective.
- Analyse and monitor inputs to establish effects accurately, allowing investigation of alternatives to reduce impacts.
- Analyse and monitor outputs to ensure they meet legislation, whilst also looking for methods to reduce waste and optimise waste streams for recycling. Strive to eliminate environmental hazards from routine and non-routine activities.
- Analyse alternatives to influence suppliers’ environmental impacts that are under the direct control of manufacturers.