Sustainable Purchasing Policy

A sustainable purchasing policy is a set of guidelines to ensure that all procurement abides by commonly defined best practices for sustainability. This is a great way to align multiple teams and vendors around your activations  sustainability goals and to ensure all future materials and products sourced to further your long-term positive impact. 

Blue Action: Develop a sustainable purchasing policy and/or work with third party suppliers and vendors to achieve sustainability goals. 

This includes training and integration into orientation material so all staff and day-of hires are made aware of this policy.

Oceanic Global recommends you include the following as part of your activation’s purchasing policy: 

Single-use plastic-free catering. 

Source responsible food, with a strong emphasis on local, plant-based and responsible seafood.

Purchase post-consumer recycled paper and paper products when available (identifying FSC-certified paper products as a second best choice). 

Plastic-free building materials and decorations (ex. plants, zip-ties).

Prioritizing products that are made from post-consumer or upcycled content (materials have been collected back from previous products and remade into new ones) such as paper and plastic products. (This could be for building materials, decorations, production elements, etc.)

Non-toxic cleaning products. 

Non-plastic and durable janitorial products. 

Sustainably packaged vendor / client / sponsor giveaways or donated products. 

Plastic-free, non-toxic, and durable office supplies (such as staple-less staplers, refillable pens, reusable wooden clip-boards, and non-toxic printer toner). 

LED or energy efficient light bulbs.

Repurposed or second-hand electronics (look for rechargeable equipment, or rechargeable batteries when other options are not possible). 

Non-synthetic clothing for staff uniforms or merchandise. 

Electric vehicles and renewable energy where possible.

Avoid diesel generators. 

Composting toilets. 

Oceanic Global can work with your business to develop this if this is of interest! Click here.