OCEANBOUND PLASTIC
“CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES SUGGEST THAT APPROXIMATELY 8 MILLION METRIC TONS OF PLASTIC ENTERED THE OCEAN FROM LAND IN 2010 ALONE.” - Science Magazine; Plastic Waste Inputs from Land Into the Ocean Volume 347, Issue 6223
ViTA is playing a lead role in helping it’s manufacturing partners, Envision Plastics, in their commitment to diverting 10 million pounds of plastic at-risk of polluting Planet Earth’s oceans over the next 2 years. ViTA’s manufacturing partner has combined supply chain experience with technical expertise and proprietary processes, to transform plastic at-risk of polluting the oceans into a reliable material, OceanBound Plastic. Envision Plastics' criteria for OceanBound Plastic source material is based on scientific findings and has satisfied a stringent criterion; most importantly, a re-certification process that includes completing a proprietary scorecard and on-site inspections. ViTA invites you to join in this great undertaking by purchasing products packaged from Envisions' OceanBound Plastic wherever possible in your life.
Sustainable Environment Partnership
Founded in 2017, the Sustainable Environment Partnership is the joint initiative between ViTA, Unique, Primal Group and Azaneem to evolve a sustainable future by ensuring that social responsibility and environmental protection remain at the forefront of the global resource-supply chain.
“Sustainability in business is not just socially responsible, it is essential for mankind’s survival and global prosperity.”
By taking an active stance in the world, true and long-lasting benefits can be created for everyone and by being proactively embedded in the local communities, through educational programs and charitable foundations, the aim is to ensure equitable access to the knowledge and resources necessary to ensure a sustainable future. The Partnership, which ViTA is proud to be a part of, strives to meet the triple bottom line – ensuring positive and profound impacts across society, the environment and the economy.
Environmental Working Group
ViTA is proud to be certified by the Environmental Working Group. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment through cutting edge research, education, and transparency. EWG's mission is to empower people to live healthier lives and consumers should be assured as to the safety of a product and all of its ingredients when entrusted with the EWG VERIFIED™ logo. The EWG VERIFIED™ product program helps make healthy purchasing choices even easier by delivering consumers information based on the latest science, at the actual point of sale.
Certain ingredients with health, ecotoxicity and/or contamination concerns. These include, but are not limited to, ingredients that score a 7 or higher (i.e., in the “red” range) in the Skin Deep® database; and Substances falling within any of the following categories due to scientific safety evaluations (with certain limited exceptions): Cosmetic ingredients banned by Health Canada, appearing on the Cosmetics Ingredient Hotlist; Ingredients designated as banned in the European Commission’s database of cosmetic substances, COSING; Chemicals on the state of California’s Proposition 65 list of known carcinogens and reproductive toxins; Substances classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as possible, probable and known carcinogens (categories 2B, 2A and 1);
Substances listed in the National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinogens (reasonably anticipated and known human carcinogens);
Substances classified by the EPA’s IRIS program as possible, probable, and known carcinogens (C, B1, B2 and A);
Ingredients not allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used in cosmetics;
Fragrance chemicals prohibited for use by the International Fragrance Association; Mineral pigments not allowed for use as colorants by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada and/or the European Union;
The European Union’s Category 1 designated endocrine disruptors;
Substances the European Union has banned or restricted in hair dye products;
Substances that fall under the EU’s Globally Harmonized System hazard codes H340-362 (hazard codes for genotoxicity, cancer, and developmental/reproductive endpoints); and
Substances designated as sensitizing asthmagens by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (applies only to products that are powders or sprays).
LABELS
It is extremely important to ViTA that the manufacturing partners are as responsible and sustainable as possible, even down to the small details such as the product labels. ViTA insists upon non-toxic ink and labels that separate from ViTA packaging so that they enter the recycling stream of mainstream recycling facilities, without the need for rarely available technology (unfortunately, there are many companies that use recyclable bottles that end up in landfills or, even worse, in the oceans due to inseparable labels).
ViTA's label manufacturers received several quality awards and certifications throughout the years and one the key reasons that ViTA chose them is they are a solvent-free facility meaning they use no solvents in the cleaning of their printing plates and equipment and all the water used to clean the plates and equipment is then used as “grey water” to water the facilities gardens.
ViTA's SUSTAINABLE LABEL PARTNERS ARE CERTIFIED BY:
(Carbonfund.org), founded in 2003, is leading the fight against global warming, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to reduce & offset their climate impact and hasten the transition to a clean energy future.
Our flexographic label printer has been awarded Carbon Neutral status through CarbonFund.org
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), established in 1993, is an international not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization to promote responsible management of the world's forests.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), established in 1919, is a cabinet-level agency in the government of California. The CDFA is responsible for ensuring the state's food safety, the protection of the state's agriculture from invasive species and promoting the California agricultural industry.
AND OF COURSE, ViTA IS CRUELTY-FREE. ALWAYS
ViTA is proud to be certified by Cruelty Free International Cruelty Free International works to end animal experiments worldwide. They do this by investigating and exposing the reality of life for animals in laboratories. Cruelty Free International challenge decision-makers to make a positive difference for animals, and champion better science and cruelty free living.
