Certified Sustainability Facts
Certified Sustainability Facts Overview
GreenCircle’s Certified Sustainability Facts (CSF) was developed to reflect the multidimensional, interconnectedness of sustainability offering a comprehensive, credible framework for communicating the full scope of a product’s sustainability performance.
Our CSF label captures both product-level and manufacturing level attributes while integrating broader sustainability factors that matter across industries. This includes critical considerations such as animal welfare, food safety, environmental farming practices, and people and community support.
Advancing a Common Language for Sustainability
One of the biggest challenges in sustainability today is inconsistency — different frameworks, definitions, and claims create confusion in the market. The CSF label addresses this by aligning with the mindful MATERIALS Common Materials Framework, helping standardize how sustainability achievements are categorized and communicated.
Through this alignment, CSF organizes verified attributes across five key impact areas:
Circular Economy
Climate Health
Ecosystem Health
Human Health
Social Health & Equity
This structure enables companies to clearly articulate their impact while allowing stakeholders, buyers, specifiers, and consumers, to make informed comparisons.
A Verified, Holistic Sustainability Narrative
Every claim featured on the CSF Label is independently, third-party verified tailored to your product and industry. This ensures that your sustainability story is not only comprehensive, but credible.
The CSF Label goes beyond environmental metrics to reflect the full breadth of responsible business practices bridging environmental performance with social responsibility. The result is a label that doesn’t just highlight isolated achievements, but communicates a complete, verified sustainability profile.
Explore how your organization can leverage the CSF Label to strengthen transparency, build trust, and lead with integrity.
Our Commitment
GreenCircle does not receive funding from any external affiliations or industry groups. Each client is charged a fee for service and certification is not guaranteed unless data requirements in the audit plan are met and analysis determines the claim can be certified.
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GreenCircle investigates complaints and appeals in compliance with its Appeals, Complaints and Disputes Procedure. In the case of complaints against the actions of an GreenCircle client, the complainant should first attempt to resolve the issue with that client prior to requesting that GreenCircle become involved. In the case of appeals, the appellant must lodge its appeal with GreenCircle against any adverse decision taken by GreenCircle within thirty (30) calendar days after notification of the decision.
GreenCircle will not compromise the integrity and impartiality of our third-party auditing of sustainability claims. We document the sustainability achievement of a client in accordance with the GreenCircle specific Audit Plan and Certification Procedure, based on a certification audit in accordance with the GreenCircle Certification Scheme.