Impact and dependencies assessment
Uflex has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.
Key areas and species
Uflex does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding Uflex ‘s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.
Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding Uflex’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. While the company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, it has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health.
Water
No evidence that Uflex reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations nor does it report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company also does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Furthermore, the company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality nor regularly report on water pollution. Uflex has also an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution. Additionally, the company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water nor its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.
Solid and air pollution
No evidence that Uflex is reducing the production of hazardous waste or plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company also does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
Uflex does not disclose any greenhouse gas emissions, nor has it set a time-bound reduction target. The company must immediately set a reduction target aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree trajectory.
Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
