Stego Sustainability Report

The purpose: better understand what products are made of, their associated health hazards, and their potential environmental impacts to make better-informed design decisions.

INDUSTRY DRIVERS

Greater Transparency, Better Products

Demand for holistically sustainable building products started small. The first, powerful signal toward change came nearly a decade ago from leading design firms, who published letters seeking greater transparency in building prod ucts. The purpose: better understand what products are made of, their associated health hazards, and their potential environmental impacts to make better-informed design decisions. These early letters — and the demands underlying their creation — spurred a new sub-industry around building product transparency. New organizations into this sub-industry built a framework for consistent transparency reporting, related to product ingredients and human health hazards. This led to new transparency tools and data- bases to streamline accessibility to product information. The result of these efforts: better products. Incorporating sustainable building products into the built environment has never been easier. For real market transformation to occur, however, the progress created by this sub-industry must gain broader adoption in the built environment.

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT | 2023

OUR IMPACT

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INTRODUCTION

CREATING BETTER SYSTEMS

OUR RESPONSIBILITY